Theodora Stolz, a psychologist who earned a Ph.D. from Hofstra University, is a caring person who runs a bohemian office in New York. She is a caring person who is active in the Medical Reserves and in Military OneSource, which caters to the needs of military personnel.

In spite of her credentials she is known as a down-to-earth person who meets each of her clients one-on-one, and makes sure each understands that they are simply two people who are sitting down together to try to solve a problem.

One of the problems that Theodora Stolz would like to solve is homelessness in America. "I am interested in the homeless," she says. "I want to launch housing for them, and maybe a future plan."
Chronic homelessness, she says, is about more than not having a roof over one's head. She says it is a condition of detachment from society. Too often, homeless people have a complete lack of the bonds that link settled people to a network of social structures.

And yet the single biggest cause of homelessness in the United States is a lack of affordable housing. As Theodora Stolz, a psychologist, knows, there are on average more than six hundred thousand people who are homeless in the United States on any given night. More than half of them are individuals, and about eighteen percent of them are considered chronically homeless.

Chronic homelessness, she says, has a specific meaning. It means either long-term homelessness or repeated periods of homelessness, along with physical or mental disability. It is a myth, says Theodora Stolz, that such people make up the majority of the homeless population.

As serious a problem as homelessness in the United States is, Theodora Stolz, a psychologist, says that there is reason for hope. There has been a significant decrease in the number of homeless people over the last ten years, and since 2007 along the number has declined by more than nineteen percent. And she believes that by stabilizing people through shelters such as the one that she proposes, coupled with assistance programs to help them stay in their housing, can further reduce and even eliminate the problem.

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