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What do you mean by "Gordian knot" here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First > In August 2007, the US Depa
by PavlovsCat 8y ago
What do you mean by "Gordian knot" here?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
> In August 2007, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that the number of chronically homeless individuals living on the streets or in shelters dropped by an unprecedented 30 percent, from 175,914 people in 2005 to 123,833 in 2007. This was credited in part to the "housing first" approach; Congress in 1999 directed that HUD spend 30% of its funding on the method.
The page is full of more success stories like that. If it's so impossible, why is it already being done all over the world?
> Studies in New York City and in Utah have shown that every homeless person housed in programs such as Housing First saves taxpayers $10,000 and $8,000 a year, respectively. A research study at University of Northern Carolina also reported that a housing project for the chronically homeless called Moore Place had saved the county $2.4 million.
Yet it "seems like a Gordion knot" because how would we pay for it... that's the answer, you don't pay, you save money. So if the problem is how some people feel about something, because they haven't informed themselves, then they should feel something else, problem solved.