Article: Re-inventing the image of SRO projects. (single-room occupancy)(Profile of the Week: Claire Haaga, President, Housing and Services, Inc.)

Single Room Occupancy hotels (SRO's) are quickly re-emerging in the minds of policy-makers as a viable solution to homelessness for single people in New York. Indeed, a recent New York Times editorial called such service-oriented SRO's "the most effective way to care for much of the homeless population," and the City recently committed itself long-term to several large SRO projects.

This extraordinary shift in attitude towards a form of housing that was widely considered the scourge of New York just a few years ago is due largely to Claire Haaga, president of Housing and Services, Inc. (HSI), a non-profit housing developer. For more than a decade, Haaga and HSI have ...

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