By all means, use data to make your case for effective solutions. Do not for a second forget that it’ll happen person by messy person and that this is not only

By all means, use data to make your case for effective solutions. Do not for a second forget that it’ll happen person by messy person and that this is not only inevitable, but good. Convincing NIMBYs of this is, well, a shitton of work. So three men from the recovery house next door help him to his feet, walk him to the halfway house and put him in the shower. They wash his clothes and shoes and give him their things to wear while he waits. They give him coffee and dinner, and they give him respect. I talked to these other men later, and even though they had very little sobriety, they did not cast this other guy off for not being well enough to be there. Somehow this broken guy was treated like one of them, because they could see that he was one of them. No one was pretending he wasn't covered with shit, but there was a real sense of kinship. […] I was just totally amazed by what I had seen. And I had a little shred of hope. I couldn't have put it into words, but until that meeting, I had thought that I would recover with men and women like myself; which is to say, overeducated, fun to be with and housebroken. And that this would happen quickly and efficiently. But I was wrong. https://www.salon.com/1998/12/10/10lamo/ https://www.salon.com/1998/12/10/10lamo/