if you give houses to homeless people indiscrimately, many of those houses will be uninhabitable in 2 years. What do you do then? Give them another house to wreck?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got any sources on that claim, or are you just assuming homeless people are inherently incapable of taking care of themselves?

[–] cricket98@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/san-franciscos-failed-experiment-of-homeless-hotels-is-a-cautionary-tale/ https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages/ https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/30/homeless-squatters-trash-casper-hotel-getting-out-of-hand-mayor-says/

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Leaving these literature reviews on housing first policy here for those who want to form their own opinion instead of getting it from right-wing "news" articles:

https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/73/5/379.full.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679128/

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25133/chapter/1

https://www.coloradocoalition.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/287.pdf

[–] cricket98@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/san-franciscos-failed-experiment-of-homeless-hotels-is-a-cautionary-tale/

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages/

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/30/homeless-squatters-trash-casper-hotel-getting-out-of-hand-mayor-says/

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of these articles discuss failures of a housing first policy, and they all seem to focus on the same single hotel.

[–] cricket98@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

I didn't make any claims about housing first policy, read the comment you are replying to. I know you barely looked at the articles because they are not about the same single hotel.