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to "homed." While there are a myriad of other issues, the fundamental objective is finding for its clients a clean, dry, safe and permanent place to sleep. How does PSH rate? One of the tables provided by the Sheriff's Office has the heading "Destination upon Discharge." It shows how poor the success rate is. Of the 5,110 who entered PSH in 2013, 126 left to occupy a "rental house or apartment." Sixteen bought a home. The 142 people who returned to a non-subsidized life represented about 2.8 percent of the 5,110. To provide per- spective on that, the chance of being accepted after applying for admission to Harvard is 5.9 percent (the graduation rate is 97 percent). A person is twice as likely to get into and grad- uate from Harvard than to come out of PSH and move into a non-subsidized home. What about the other 97.2 percent of people at PSH in 2013? In the same table, "Destination upon Discharge," is the label "unknown." It accounts for 3,370 people, or 66 percent, of the persons who came in the door. Add the 287 who went to "places not meant for human habitation (street)," and that means 68 per- cent — more than two-thirds — were back on the street or staff could not account for them. In reality, the number is larger. A huge major- ity of the people coming to PSH is expelled. The facility has an 8 p.m. curfew; statistics from the Sheriff's Office listed "missed cur- few" as the reason 4,653 persons had "for leaving PSH." In this table, there is a also line for "completed program." In 2013, only two people — both Cardno, the consulting firm working with Sarasota County staff, produced this concept drawing of a shelter on the 1800 N. East Ave. site in Sarasota. Image courtesy Sarasota County Sarasota News Leader May 2, 2014 Page 11