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I know this'll be like throwing battery acid on the sapients of the campfire but not all homeless people are homeless because they're drug addicts or simply don't want to work.
My company has done a fair bit of pro bono work with volunteer orgs that seek to transition people out of their current dire situations, to get them back on their feet and into the world where they're potentially self-sufficient. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - but what's been happening in recent decades has not been working at all.

There are two ways of thinking about these developments as they pop up all over the country:

1) Use the apartment as an incentive and reward for adhering to goal-based case management. In other words, show initiative and a little progress, and we’ll give you an apartment.

2) Use the apartment as a stable platform from which people can work toward self-help and improvement. People with a stable place of their own show much better success in reaching benchmarks than those living on the streets and in shelters.

I’m of the mind that both of these are true and need to be part of a program. However, being pragmatic, the economic models show that these developments more than pay for themselves in the savings to healthcare and law enforcement. It is a far lower burden on taxpayers to simply give homeless people a small, cheap apartment than to have them wandering the streets.

Food for thought.

I know this'll be like throwing battery acid on the sapients of the campfire but not all homeless people are homeless because they're drug addicts or simply don't want to work.
My company has done a fair bit of pro bono work with volunteer orgs that seek to transition people out of their current dire situations, to get them back on their feet and into the world where they're potentially self-sufficient. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - but what's been happening in recent decades has not been working at all.

There are two ways of thinking about these developments as they pop up all over the country:

1) Use the apartment as an incentive and reward for adhering to goal-based case management. In other words, show initiative and a little progress, and we’ll give you an apartment.

2) Use the apartment as a stable platform from which people can work toward self-help and improvement. People with a stable place of their own show much better success in reaching benchmarks than those living on the streets and in shelters.

I’m of the mind that both of these are true and need to be part of a program. However, being pragmatic, the economic models show that these developments more than pay for themselves in the savings to healthcare and law enforcement. It is a far lower burden on taxpayers to simply give homeless people a small, cheap apartment than to have them wandering the streets.

Food for thought.

Would you having passing a monthly drug test as a requirement. It’s getting harder to find a job if you are a user of illegal drugs.

When I was homeless in LA, I lived at the end on the Bob Hope International Airport. Even in Burbank there would be needles in the parking lots. Santa Clarita is a pretty good for a few days if you want to get out of town.

A little known honey hole is at LAX. There is a Postal facility there you can hit at shift change and get a parking spot on the street in front of it. Probably the safest place in LA.

Everyone should go to Walmart in Compton at least once in their life. The hookers are on the street with pimps sitting in the cars watching a quarter of a mile from the store.

I saw a negro woman that I'm guessing had been shot in the eye. It was damn near as big as a baseball and different colors swirled together like a rubber ball.

LA has a map with all there streets marked red, yellow or green. Green streets you can be parked on 24 hours a day and live there. Around skid row isn't a place I would drive through at night, the pictures are nothing like the real thing.

No mention of what those 87 furnished apartments cost the taxpayer. Probably don't want to know.

How long will it take before they are trashed?

They will trashed within months. People have no respect for that which they haven't worked and sacrificed to obtain.