Ending Homelessness With $ We Spend On Christmas Decorations
by Kaitlin Senk on Jun 24, 2014 | Views: 170 | Score: 0
| Amount of Money... | |
|---|---|
| Needed to End Homelessness in the US | 20 |
| Americans Will Spend on Christmas Decorations & Flowers | 24 |
Dollars in Billions
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In the fight to end homelessness by the year 2020 — the mission of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness in their 2010 plan — progress isn’t happening fast enough. What is needed is a ten-fold increase in HUD’s $1.9 billion budget. By any measure $20 billion is a lot, but the figure is less daunting when placed in context.