Manchester turns to ‘housing first’ scheme to eradicate rough sleeping
Manchester turns to ‘housing first’ scheme to eradicate rough sleeping
Inspired by Finnish success story, mayor Andy Burnham says unconditional homes policy ‘saves public money’
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“I think that it can be applied [here], and that is part of the reason why we’re here, because we are happy to share the experiences we have had,” he said. “Human beings are similar everywhere, so it can’t be impossible to apply to other countries as well.”
Looking at you, USA.
I believe it was Utah who has already done some work on this and showed that it was very successful and reducing ER use and police interaction between the same individuals getting housing
I'm not sure if I heard anything about that and forgot, or didn't, but we can do it nationally. There's no reason not to take care of each other.
I replied with thanks, for your kindness, but fat -finger deleted it, when I went to edit, so again, thanks so much, for your kindness!
But we didn't follow through with programming or sufficient resources to deal with the core issues that people face."
Well, it was a step, but the other foot has to follow. It's "housing first," not "housing fixes everything, done." We have to stop running societies like businesses for short gain, while running it into the ground and outsourcing the issues to third parties, like prison -for-profit via chattel slavery, before the few percent have us all being chattel slaves.
Hi, thanks so much! Very kind of you.