While Copeland shows compassion for the chronically homeless and the working poor, she can be unsparing in her judgment of them as parents.

It utilizes eight key health indicators that measure a chronically homeless person's vulnerability to early death.

This could mean an end to many programs that help keep those wobbling on and off the streets from becoming chronically homeless.

City and state officials have long said the city needs to move long-term, chronically homeless people into rehabilitation programs.

But most people who are chronically homeless have more complicated needs and more human problems than their lack of a "home."

His administration would then spend more money on a subgroup of people whom he characterized as "chronically homeless," not merely poor.

A program to move the chronically homeless into permanent housing has won a $2.8 million federal grant.

The city has found 73 of those sites inhabited by groups of chronically homeless people, the mayor said.

Since 1999, our agency has provided housing for more than three thousand chronically homeless, mentally ill, and substance-using adults with severe medical problems.

However, there are between 12 to 25 people who are chronically homeless and do not use the shelters.