Press: Homeless alcoholics in Seattle find a home - NPR

"Bill Hobson is a homeless advocate in Seattle who runs a government program that one critic calls 'bunks for drunks.' It's a facility that offers a home for alcoholics in exchange for nothing. They can even continue drinking while living there."

(Here is a story about true compassion: Getting the worst drunks off the streets before they die there, providing them shelter with the acknowledgment that they will not stop drinking but the certainty that some help is better than no help. This story shows that the homeless really do want to get off the streets, but they don't when required to clean up their lives before or as a condition of accepting shelter. What would Mother Teresa do? Go to the homeless and unconditionally help them as they are, not as society prefers them to be.)