I found an interesting blog today. It's written by the folks at Coalition for the Homeless in Cleveland. Apparently they went to a recent National Coalition for the Homeless board meeting. They had a lot of negative things to say about some major cities. Here's what was written about Philadelphia.

Philadelphia and a few other cities are fighting over the creative use of statistics that "show" we are making progress in solving homelessness. Solving homelessness on paper seems to be the new trend by local and federal government agencies. This way they get to send out a press release congratulating themselves for figuring out how to spin data to show progress.

It's interesting that he mentions the display of information, because that's exactly what I'm working on. I'm not sure if he's saying that organizations, individuals or politicians are doing the spinning. I'll ask him.