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Inside Houston’s successful strategy to reduce homelessness [Video]

Correspondent Martha Teichner with Army veteran Julie Blow, who had been reduced to living in a tent on the streets of Houston, but is now in a studio apartment.  CBS News

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A lot of bad luck led 62-year-old Army veteran Julie Blow to homelessness – a serious kidney issues, a fall that cost her the sight in one eye, two surgeries. Blow couldn’t work, and ran out of money.

And now? She has an apartment; brand-new furniture donated by a local retailer; and a TV. The 320-sq.-ft. studio is nothing fancy, but for Blow, it’s a luxury after the tent where she had been living. “I feel like a teenager, I am that happy!” she said. “You know, before all the stuff happens to you in life and you get jaded? I feel like a teenager!”

For Houston, it’s one more piece of evidence that its strategy for solving its homelessness problem …

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