We’ve shown, multiple times around the world that the way to reduce homelessness is giving people housing first, then working to solve their other problems.
All the moralizing solutions implemented and proposed just don’t work.
Shuffling people doesn’t work. Making benefits contingent on sobriety and jobseeking behavior doesn’t work.
What works is reducing people’s stress enough to stop having to think about their immediate survival. Once that pressure is off, people very often start taking care of themselves. It works. Just look at Salt Lake City.
The way to get rid of homeless people is to house them.
