{"id":920,"date":"2008-12-31T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=920"},"modified":"2009-01-05T16:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:53:33","slug":"end-homelessness-build-community-hospice-complexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2008\/12\/31\/end-homelessness-build-community-hospice-complexes\/","title":{"rendered":"End Homelessness: Build Community Hospice Complexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urban homelessness as we currently know it in the United States is only moderately serious, compared to the way it ravages other <strong>urban centers<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our national problem is limited enough in scope that one can imagine <strong>abolishing<\/strong> it entirely.\u00a0 We currently adopt a small-scale approach to offering a helping hand to homeless individuals and families; but it is a <strong>patchwork<\/strong> of different uncoordinated religious and social groups, each constrained by the particular guidelines of the founding body, and relatively expensive to maintain per person served.\u00a0 Many shelter and halfway house <strong>designs<\/strong> are unhealthy and unscalable in cold weather when contagious illness is a real threat.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the <strong>social contract<\/strong> of our cities should include building <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/ideas\/view\/start_community_hospice_complexes_in_major_cities\">community hospice complexes<\/a><\/strong> in major cities which go far beyond providing basic lodging and food, offering tools and services for every stage in the <strong>transition<\/strong> through homelessness to independence.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/change.org\">change.org<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/ideas\"><strong>Ideas for Changing America<\/strong><\/a> for making me condense that into two paragraphs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban homelessness as we currently know it in the United States is only moderately serious, compared to the way it ravages other urban centers.\u00a0 Our national problem is limited enough in scope that one can imagine abolishing it entirely.\u00a0 We currently adopt a small-scale approach to offering a helping hand to homeless individuals and families; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-eQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}