Genius. Prisons provide homes for thousands of people.
"The theory, made mandatory for the groups that receive billions in federal funding to address homelessness, is that people experiencing homelessness cannot be helped unless they first have a home without conditions such as sobriety. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) even defunded mental health, addiction counseling, and employment training services. Unfortunately, this one-size-fits-all policy ignores human nature and too frequently results in soul-crushingly low expectations that consign too many to a life of dependency."
Who wants to live in a neighborhood of drug addicts unless you are one yourself? Why defund all the other services?
"Here enjoy your new home. Good luck with that addiction and no employment."
How does the housing look like after some homeless person spend few years in there?
Can somebody still live in there?
That’s exactly like saying, “The poor are poor because they don’t have money. Give them money and - regardless of underlying financial illiteracy or self-destructive financial habits - they’ll no longer be poor.”
Fools
I recently let two different homeless families rent my rental house for ten bucks per week . None of the two even paid that paltry fee and both trashed the place and stole from us as well as destruction so bad we can no longer rent it as furnished . I had my fling with trying to help the homeless . From what I have seen there are many reasons they are homeless but the biggest reason is they deserve it .
Fail. A lot of the “unhoused” do NOT want to be in the “system”. Which seems to be getting more attractive. 😳
GIVE THEM A HOME?
I worked for $$$ & I used that $$$$ to buy my own home.
NO GIVE involved.
The theory, made mandatory for the groups that receive billions in federal funding to address homelessness, is that people experiencing homelessness cannot be helped unless they first have a home without conditions such as sobriety.
Even so, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced that thanks to the $615 million in federal Rescue Plan aid, Houston would now spend $100 million under Housing First aimed at half of the chronically homeless population.
If Turner and Hidalgo are involved in any capacity, it will be a colossal failure filled with graft.
We need treatment facilities for the mentally ill that they are forced into. It is their only hope. They cannot make life dicisions on their own. The rest of the homeless that are druggies or lazy panhandling bums need to be in prison. Bums are bums.
Houston is a hell of a place to be homeless in the summertime.
Homelessness may be down in Houston, but it is hotter than he’ll with 95-99% humidity. Homeless people are liky going to states where the weather is nicer; like in California.
I’m willing to bet a chunk of money that the “homeless” (aka druggie’s) problem in Houston will soon get worse.
If you house them, give them money, feed them, give them drugs and needles to shoot up with, let them poop in the sidewalks, cuddle them... they will come.