content: I heard it's really hard to land a job without a mailing address since you have to put down a permanent address. Utah did a big push to end homelessness by giving apartments to the chronic homeless (>1 year). Homelessness dropped 91% while less than 2% returned to their original situation, so I'd like to think I remembered correctly. Source: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/09/housing_first_opens_newest_uni.html