Three and a half years ago, Dallas decided to tackle the seemingly unfixable problem of homelessness. They hired a couple of homeless czars, started building a $21M assistance center, and launched a 10-year plan to get people off the streets and into permanent housing. And the results so far show it’s having a significant positive effect. The number of Dallas County homeless dropped 9% in a year and the chronically homeless dropped 23%.

Let’s hope that Sacramento’s new focus on solving this difficult problem also has the same (or better) positive outcome.

Gillian Parrrillo
The Sacramento Executive