According to the US Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness ICPH (2011), ‘Open Doors to End Homelessness’ is a federal policy aimed at preventing and ending homelessness. The policy proposes a number of strategies that requires the federal government to work together with the state and local governments, private sector, and non-governmental organizations to employ cost effective and comprehensive solutions to the homelessness problem. Since it was launched in 2010, the policy aims to end chronic homelessness problems among the veterans, children, families, and youths by 2010. U.S Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) 2010 report on the objectives of the open doors policy reported that on a single day, 643,067 people are homeless
