Is There A Mad Monk Of Homelessness?

By Kleinheider Posted on April 21, 2008 at 10:20 am

The White House’s “homelessness czar”, Phil Mangano, came to Nashville on Friday to meet with city leaders:

Mangano is a strong believer that it is cheaper for a community to house a homeless person than to pay when he or she is put in jail or goes to the emergency room. He says it’s even more important than the nation’s foreclosure crisis.

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