Now what?
I see so many great ideas thrown around, and some even fully developed into a a new program designed to provide services to those in the community. But what happens when the program isn't really what the community needed? How to we measure a program's efffectiveness? A county near where I live claims to not have a homeless problem. This is because there isn't a single homeless shelter in the county. There are many homeless camps and tent cities in the county, and panhandlers on almost every corner of the major intersections, but they don't have a homeless problem? Many people think it's a lack of housing, asking why churches can't give them a place to stay, or why we can't use this vacant building or that one to provide a place to sleep. During a real bad cold spell other areas of the metro area started opening up hotels and convention centers to house those living on the streets. The problem is then you need someone to provide security, and volunteers to cl...