OTOH, I understand that these are *formerly* homeless people, who would be getting the dogs. Perhaps this will be the only *love* these people ever know.
What kind of a hideous *agency/bureaucracy* is going to be created to monitor this program? Oi!
The dogs might love the people, but will the love be reciprocated? Given my experience with human nature and bureaucracies, I can’t imagine this will end well.
If I had to guess, I would say that photo is staged.
For one, his beard is very neatly trimmed although it appears to have one day stubble beyond the trim.
His outer clothes are dirty but his white undershirt appears brand new.
His hands aren’t weathered, and look like an office worker’s hands.