This week in Washington, people from Detroit, Tucson, New Orleans, San Diego, Atlanta and nine other cities gathered to celebrate doing the impossible. The participants share a tough job: getting homeless veterans off the street and into apartments and social services. They work in cities that have large numbers of homeless vets — but most of their cities were making only modest progress toward housing them.
Read more in The New York Times: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/whe-one-fix-leads-to-another/