Advocates are Embracing a New First Step to Help the Homeless: Permanent Housing

Becky Kanis Margiotta was trying to help the homeless in Times Square, working for Breaking Ground. She was surrounded by dozens of other organizations within just a few blocks, all trying to solve the same problem.

“Our original theory was, ‘Could you knit [those organizations] together and have that result in a quantifiable reduction in homelessness?’ And quickly we learned that the answer was ‘no.’”