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Has "housing first" worked? In LA, they have spent $5B on the approach since 2016, and are now entertaining a proposal to spend $837K per unit. They are build
by tomohawk 4y ago
Has "housing first" worked?
In LA, they have spent $5B on the approach since 2016, and are now entertaining a proposal to spend $837K per unit. They are building about 200 units a year, and there are over 40,000 homeless people in LA.
https://economicprism.com/feeding-las-homeless-industrial-complex/ https://economicprism.com/feeding-las-homeless-industrial-co...
- mike00632 4y agoYes, housing first is extremely effective at getting homeless people off the street. It's also the cheaper option.
- bifrost 4y agoIn San Francisco and LA, it is not.
- jljljl 4y agoHousing First on the West Coast (in addition to Harm Reduction and Support Services) needs to be coupled with a massive expansion of housing and construction so that prices can be brought down to a manageable level.
- bifrost 4y agoHomelessness on the west coast doesn't really have much to do with the market pricing of housing, its all about drugs. Harm Reduction is a sham, its why SF is the way it is. Simply giving people access to free needles does nothing for the actual problems - unabated drug use.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoIt would be better if they just shipped them all off to Atherton.