LA TIMES: Skid row's neediest may get housing and care

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By Susannah Rosenblatt
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 8, 2008

They'll search for the 50 people identified earlier and encourage them to move to county-funded apartments downtown and get regular medical and mental-health care.

The process of moving someone from the streets into an apartment could take as little as a day or up to six months, said Beth Sandor, Los Angeles field director for Common Ground, a New York City nonprofit group that is helping coordinate the L.A. effort. Common Ground launched a similar, largely successful effort to house homeless people living in Times Square.

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