The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom – of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc – and therefore the solution to it is training, incarceration, rehab, or rigid discipline.
None of this stuff worked.
For more than a decade, there’s been a more pragmatic approach to homelessness: giving people homes. The housing first movement has repeatedly shown that the best way to make homeless people not homeless is to give. them. a. home. https://endhomelessness.org/resource/housing-first/ After all, if you are struggling with addiction, mental illness, etc, or if you eed structure in […]
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