It does not address whether requirements can be imposed on the homeless once they are in the social services system.

The city is planning to set aside several thousand apartments next year for the city's homeless system.

The goal is to shrink the homeless system by two-thirds by the end of 2009.

"Where is it appropriate to house the most dangerous people in the homeless system?"

It is believed that a large percentage of these released patients ended up in the homeless system.

Under the law, the state regulates the homeless systems of localities.

The building is now a key part of the city's homeless system.

"We need a restructuring and refocusing of the homeless system," he said.

And when they can't, they drop with their children into the homeless system.

"I think the fact that the homeless system is here is a crisis averted."