Almost immediately, she discovered that a lot of her assumptions about homelessness were wrong. She had thought that finding adequate shelter in New Haven would be the biggest problem. People on the Green did suffer from a lack of clean places to stay, especially during the bitter winters, and they also mentioned police harassment and deficient mental health treatment. But those problems paled in comparison to what they really needed. And what they really needed, they told her, was an address. By definition, homeless people don’t have homes. But an address is not a home. An address, today, is
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