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Affordable Housing Finance
June, 2007

Sam Tsemberis is a pioneer in the Housing First movement to end homelessness.  He founded Pathways to Housing in 1992 with the mission of taking people off the streets of New York City and getting them into housing.  This went against the old notion that some people aren't ready to be housed.  Pathways, however, took the approach that housing is a basic right and once people have a place of their own, they can then address other issues such as mental illness, drug addiction and health problems.  Pathways houses several hundred formerly homeless people today, with strong retention rates.  Tsemberis shares what's happening with Housing First programs across the nation.

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