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[quote=Anonymous]Don't blame Arlington. Our numbers went down because we got homeless veterans off the streets and because we are moving more families straight into permanent housing so that they never hit the shelters. It's the Housing First model. Also you need to understand how this survey works. If you are in a shelter or some transitional housing, you get counted. If you can't get access to the shelter and you and your kids end up on someone's floor, you don't get counted. Well, DC just increased access to shelters. So the numbers go up even if the number of people in trouble in DC does not change. So don't assume that your issue is that you are importing the poor. More likely, you are finding more of them than before. If you want to get them off of your homeless books, move them into permanent housing or set up eviction prevention programs. [/quote]
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