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Reno Is Beating the Odds in Solving Homelessness
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Nothing new here. Give people access to free private housing and they can take care of everything else in their life.
I can't imagine how hard it is to get a job to get yourself back on your feet when you don't even have a permanent address.
Nowhere to keep/wash your clothes. Nowhere to shower. Nowhere to get mail. I'd bet a lot of computer systems aren't even built to handle people without an address.
Its basically impossible
It's a good and necessary foundation but certainly not all of the equation. Mental health and addiction services are also necessary. Simply housing people will help a good chunk of the homeless population but that is largely the unseen homeless population that couch surfs and/or stays in their cars. They are very at risk of falling into the chronically homeless which takes a lot more resources to fix.
"Housing first" is the idea that most of life falling apart is from losing your most basic need: shelter.
It's stressful to keep a job, distancing from friends and dates and family, if you don't have a home and smell weird
Instead, when we give people homes without conditions, they can breath a sigh of relief, and have enough spoons to tackle the rest of the problems.
As pointed out, or as might need to be pointed out, nobody builds something this expensive without considering the auxiliary social services to help people get out of the situation for the next occupant.
It's the most cost effective thing you can do, anything else is cruel, bureaucratic, and inefficient.
If you already have a job and relationships and suddenly end up unhoused, the community letting that spiral to your job firing you is a failing of the whole town. It doesn't have to, all we need is to fill those empty homes...
Having an actual address is ingrained in all aspects of modern life in the US. Picture trying to get a loan for a car, or applying for a job without an address - mandatory fields when doing either. Then look at the housing market, and it would be obvious to anybody why it's so hard for these people.
Not to mention a lot of that paperwork might criminally prosecute you if you use some other address.
Think of the stories of people who were accused of being fraudulent voters for putting their address as a nearby grocery store or something like that.
It's part of the conservative design of society, to be as cruel as possible to people who don't comport.