Well jail for drug/alcohol abusers doesn't work. It's just another weak wristed attempt to paper over the problem. Like throwing mentally ill people in jail. I

Well jail for drug/alcohol abusers doesn't work. It's just another weak wristed attempt to paper over the problem. Like throwing mentally ill people in jail. I mean, I get it. There's no place else to put them. But it only makes the problem worse. You could have users, potentially anyway, be in the same jail as their dealer. (Even in the same cell.) It's just lunacy. What you really need are real mental health facilities that police, families and courts can call on. You need real drug rehab facilities that police, families and courts can call on. We've tried to turn jails into mental health and rehab facilities and we're wondering why it doesn't work. Well, that's not what a jail is for. Incentivizing owner occupied housing is a no brainer I suppose. It certainly can't hurt in any way I can think of? Free food is ok. Needles and cash could potentially be used to simply feed addictions. Shouldn't be giving out needles and cash. Food is a necessity though. It's the canary in the coal mine. You'll know something's going wrong when the amount of food consumed at kitchens or taken from food banks starts going up. These are the metrics municipalities should be tracking.