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June 29, 2007

City says experiment with housing for chronic alcoholics is a success

  • The city expects to spend about $11,000 per resident to operate the apartment building each year, less than 10 percent of the money chronic drunks would cost if left on the streets.
    • By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
    Associated Press Writer

    When Brian Steik lived on the streets, the government spent tens of thousands of dollars on emergency room visits and other services to keep the alcoholic alive.

    Now social-service agencies are conducting an experiment: Offering Steik and dozens of other homeless drinkers subsidized apartments where they can keep boozing at a fraction of the cost.


     
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