A great solution to homelessness is to build more housing: where housing is cheap and plentiful, the homelessness rate is low, even in places with a lot of mental health and substance abuse problems.
Great insight. How about this: Instead of trying to build housing in the most expensive parts of the country - urban areas - why not provide opportunities to relocate communities to areas of the country in decline due to population loss? Public policy seems to always pit two adversarial parties and make us compete against ourselves. I'd be interested in a study that shows how cities, states and federal government could actually save money by building communities outside of urban SMSAs.
Great insight. How about this: Instead of trying to build housing in the most expensive parts of the country - urban areas - why not provide opportunities to relocate communities to areas of the country in decline due to population loss? Public policy seems to always pit two adversarial parties and make us compete against ourselves. I'd be interested in a study that shows how cities, states and federal government could actually save money by building communities outside of urban SMSAs.
Thanks for writing this. It's so ridiculous that we have the solutions but lack the will and desire to treat everyone with basic dignity and humanity.