Study reveals homeless
NZPA staff correspondent Washington
Between 250,000 and 350,000 Americans are homeless, according to the Housing and Urban Development Department. The study says that about half the street people suffer from mental illness, alcoholism and drug abuse, and that their median age is between the late 20s and mid 30s.
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Press, 17 May 1984, Page 4
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