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>Housing First does not work for the mentally ill, drug addicted, or other causes of homelessness This claim seems a bit far-fetched - "non-economically homele

• phpisthebest 4y ago
  >>"non-economically homeless" probably would be simpler to help with their underlying issues if they didn't live on the streets. Sure, but they need treatment facilities, not an apartment. Housing First policies is not creating a Mental Health Center to treat people with serious conditions. It is either building standard new housing that is gifted to the homeless, or finding existing housing to provide. Which for the economically homeless there are already many many government programs to provide that the problem is they all have HUGE waitlists as there is a housing shortage. This is why the economically homeless in the US is the most temporary, and many of the economically homeless are simply waiting for a unit to open up on one of the many government programs that provide housing units. Putting a severely drug addicted or mentally ill person in such housing will not only do a disservice to them as they are still not getting help, and they likely will not stay in the unit anyway. It places the other residents in danger as well