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RCED-94-97R 1 (1994-07-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackpl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOe United States G A O General Accounting Office Kansas City Regional Office Suite 600-Broadmoor Place 5799 Broadmoor Mission, Kansas 66202-2400 B-254977 July 11, 1994 The Honorable Freeman Bosely, Jr. Mayor of St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri 63103 Dear Mayor Bosely: At the request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, we reviewed the role of federal McKinney Act programs in assisting the homeless in four cities, including St. Louis.1 This letter responds to requests from program administrators and providers of services for the homeless for certain information we gathered during our work in St. Louis. This information concerns the city's (1) efforts to assist the homeless before the McKinney Act's enactment; (2) use of McKinney Act programs to meet the needs of the city's homeless; (3) unmet needs identified by local service providers, including the need for affordable housing; and (4) method of counting the homeless. We developed the information presented in this letter through a case study approach that relied on three principal techniques: individual interviews with a wide range of local people who were assisting the homeless, focus groups with providers of services funded by McKinney Act programs, and a panel discussion with local experts on homelessness. We conducted our work from June 1992 through February 1994. Enclosure I lists the persons we interviewed. In summary, we were told that efforts to assist the homeless in St. Louis began as early as the 1940s, when the Salvation Army provided emergency shelter services. From then through the mid-1980s, churches and missions provided most emergency food and shelter services and, together with city-funded hospitals and 'Homelessness: McKinney Act Programs Provide Assistance but Are Not Designed to Be the Solution (GAO/RCED-94-37, May 31, 1994) presents the results of our work in Baltimore, San Antonio, Seattle, and St. Louis. GAO/RCED-94-97R, Efforts to Assist the Homeless in St. Louis

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