I didn’t know that, but I do know that homelessness isn’t just a housing problem. A huge number of cases are more mental health related: E.g. even if the person had money they wouldn’t be able to live in a stable home. Because the root cause of their lack of money and homelessness is mental health. I would also consider drug addiction to be a mental health issue here by the way which would be a significant percentage of the homeless too.
And that is of course heavily associated with the lack of affordable mental healthcare in the US :( And drug addiction care.
Of course if you would give out housing you would save a lot of homeless, just saying it wouldn’t work for all.
There have been repeated studies and examples where homeless people have simply been giving a house and basic living wage, with no qualifiers on who can receive it based on mental health or drug use. Every time this is done people thrive and pull their lives back together.
It absolutely is, at its core, a housing problem. Provide basic humanitarian safety and stability and people can pull themselves out of the darkness just fine.
I didn’t know that, but I do know that homelessness isn’t just a housing problem. A huge number of cases are more mental health related: E.g. even if the person had money they wouldn’t be able to live in a stable home. Because the root cause of their lack of money and homelessness is mental health. I would also consider drug addiction to be a mental health issue here by the way which would be a significant percentage of the homeless too.
And that is of course heavily associated with the lack of affordable mental healthcare in the US :( And drug addiction care.
Of course if you would give out housing you would save a lot of homeless, just saying it wouldn’t work for all.
There have been repeated studies and examples where homeless people have simply been giving a house and basic living wage, with no qualifiers on who can receive it based on mental health or drug use. Every time this is done people thrive and pull their lives back together.
It absolutely is, at its core, a housing problem. Provide basic humanitarian safety and stability and people can pull themselves out of the darkness just fine.
Edit: the “evidence and outcomes” section of the housing first Wikipedia page speaks for itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First