"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Unfortunately thanks to protestant work ethic people have learned to fear above all anyone getting something they personally feel wasn’t earned. They’ll spend $50 to prevent $1 reaching “undeserving” hands. They’ll pay luxury prices for needless cruelty and call it thrift.
some kind of empathy transplant could do wonders—if you ripped someone out of their house and they had to live on the street they would of course choose housing—they just can‘t see *themselves* in the unhoused person they pass every day
