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A comment on San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare.

Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by tomohawk on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:31PM (#31211363)
Has "housing first" worked?

In LA, they have spent $5B on the approach since 2016, and are now entertaining a proposal to spend $837K per unit. They are building about 200 units a year, and there are over 40,000 homeless people in LA.

https://economicprism.com/feeding-las-homeless-industrial-co...

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Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by mike00632 on Friday April 29, 2022 @06:58PM (#31211570)
Yes, housing first is extremely effective at getting homeless people off the street. It's also the cheaper option.
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Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by bifrost on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:33PM (#31211817)
In San Francisco and LA, it is not.
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Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by jljljl on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:57PM (#31211963)
Housing First on the West Coast (in addition to Harm Reduction and Support Services) needs to be coupled with a massive expansion of housing and construction so that prices can be brought down to a manageable level.
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Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by bifrost on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:10PM (#31212434)
Homelessness on the west coast doesn't really have much to do with the market pricing of housing, its all about drugs.

Harm Reduction is a sham, its why SF is the way it is.

Simply giving people access to free needles does nothing for the actual problems - unabated drug use.

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Re:San Francisco’s “Housing First” Nightmare by fnordpiglet on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:50PM (#31211921)
It would be better if they just shipped them all off to Atherton.
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