Arthur Sena, who lived for years in a hole near railroad tracks, in his “housing first” apartment in Denver.
FROM: The New York Times
By ERIK ECKHOLM, June 7, 2006
DENVER — Arthur Sena spent years living in a hole that he had dug near the railroad tracks. He would probably still be there, defying offers of help from social workers and using cardboard to ward off the chill, if Denver had not adopted a radical strategy of putting homeless people into apartments of their own, no strings attached.