OT Three Hotels Approaching Foreclosure in the Heart of Portland Offer a Warning to City Leaders

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    Phatguysrule Well-Known Member

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    Thank you. I've gone out of my way to specifically point that out on multiple occasions.

    Nobody has ever said suggested drug or mental care would be reduced. In fact, it should be expanded.

    Housing first helps do all of this far more efficiently.
     
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    Yeah, fighting misinformation has costs.

    We've established that SLC had a homeless problem before housing first started, no homeless problem during housing first, and a homeless problem after housing first ended. This isn't disputed in any of those links. Homelessness was reduced by 91%.

    We've established HUD has a cost of homelessness per homeless person per year in 2012 of around $40k
    https://www.politifact.com/factchec...cretary-says-homeless-person-costs-taxpayers/

    The price of housing first was around $8k per person at the time.
     
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    I haven't really looked into that specific project. I know alot of resources like that help you get housing and also help you get in for medical and other recourses.

    That's why we need a multi pronged process. All homeless people don't have mental disabilities or drug issues. They can be housed immediately. Open live-in rehabs and mental hospitals for the rest prior to housing.

    Provide other resources such as medical insurance, food, etc for those houses. Provide services to help them find work. There have been programs to help people with records get work...we can do more like that.

    The hardest thing is it needs to all be centralized and well oiled to work. We can't have these people waiting months for services or they will end up back on the street. We need to work quickly and diligently to get them healthy and back into the community as productive members. It can be done.
     
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