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Homelessness: Is Housing First working? California is a case study
‘Housing First’ (without many requirements) doesn’t seem to be very effective as over 60% of the homeless population suffers from either substance abuse and/or mental illness. Addiction and mental illness are treatable diseases with long term care, but there is no cure. Simply providing shelter will not cure a disease. It allows the individual to go untreated,…
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Homelessness in California: Newsom needs Trump to bail him out
To put things in perspective let’s begin with some startling numbers for our entire country. According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), in January of 2024 there were 771,480 people that experienced homelessness in a single winter night in this country when the count was taken. That’s up from 653,104 (18%) from…