This is an amazing plan.  More amazing is the history of its beginnings.  Most of my contact with homeless people with drug difficulties comes from my hospital experience.  A wet shelter sounds almost impossible to manage safely to me.  Just goes to show what ideas point-of-view creates?

[quote]Hartford will roll out a plan called Journey Home to end chronic homelessness in 10 years

Carol Walter, executive director of the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, used to call herself the safest woman in Hartford.

At the time, she was running the Stuart B. McKinney Shelter on Huyshope Avenue, one of the city's two "wet" shelters, where the homeless can come in drunk or high, as long as they don't hurt anyone. The other is the Immaculate Conception Shelter on Park Street.

"Often the most difficult folks come into those programs," said Walter. "If there's a crack to fall through, these guys will find it."

But they liked Walter. Hence the "safest woman" comment.

http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=3380