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Housing First is similar to 14th Street Legal Clinic because they are helping the homeless by opening around ten 4-story complexes which holds about 1,271 chronicle homeless individuals. Housing First is a nonprofit organization, because of them there is a 73% reduction of chronicle homelessness. Unfortunately chronically homeless only make up 20% of the homeless population all together. Like the 14th Street Legal Clinic, or rather like Mike, they are tied with many public good services that help the homeless adjust to the life they are in. At the same time they are very different because they are not dealing with legal matters, they are dealing with housing for the majority of  homeless that have only been on the street for a year or so while the Mike and the other lawyers of the 14th Street Legal Clinic deal with people that have been on the street for most of their lives like the Burton Family who have lived and died on the street. 

Cleveland Street Chronicles have changed a few lives of the homeless like the 14th Street Clinic. They were inspired by a man and a small group of homeless people that were trying to make money on the street without begging for it. Due to this paper more people have become aware of the homelessness issue. People became aware of Mr. Michael R. White, the mayor of , was trying to do. Mr. White ordered the police force to ticket those homeless, that were trying to earn money without begging, $50 for not having a city peddler's licence. Luckily the ACLU or American Civil Liberties Union filed a suit in favor the the homeless Their reasoning was: it went against their First Amendment right, but it was all in vain; due to the U.S. District Judge agreed with the city in the matter. As for the 14th Street Legal Clinic they dealt with a lot of people with these issues of trying to earn money without begging and also begging for money for whatever needs they have.  

Both of these organizations are similar to each other in helping the homeless earn their rights as citizens like the Street Legal Clinic. Together they have changed many peoples lives that once lived on the street or still do. They both have their own funding and they both saved people for going under anymore than they already have.  But the problem with both of these is they both have not dealt with the legal matters like eviction of their workers or people that live in their housing nor have they ever dealt with people having their children taken from them and trying to get them back. But like the Street Legal Clinic they have changed and possibly saved peoples lives, they have helped those people a whole lot more than most people would by building them housings or giving them jobs so they can have some sort of income and are able to save to get their own place in the world.