The number of homeless drops 30 percent in span of two years

The World

At a time when the job market is stalling, fuel and food prices are soaring and Americans are reeling from home foreclosures, could homelessness rates really be dropping? The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says yes. Guests: Michael Stoops, acting executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington, and Daniel Malone, Director of Housing, Downtown Emergency Service Center, which runs the 1811 Eastlake supportive housing project for chronic alcoholics.

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