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Robert Frost once described home as "the place where, when you have to go there, /They have to take you in."¹ This is precisely what the homeless lack: not only a home of their own but also a claim on anyone else — kin, community, or government — to take them in and give them a home. Chronic illness, physical as well as mental, commonly accompanies homelessness and may have contributed to it in the first place. Often, however, it is only when the homeless become acutely ill that they are able to make a large claim on resources from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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