Housing First policies are being replaced with punitive reforms that could push 170,000 people back into homelessness.

Last fall, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) nearly triggered a homelessness disaster of its own making. A rush of policy changes that were rolled out with almost no warning and even less guidance threatened to push up to 170,000 formerly unhoused Americans out of stable housing. The strangest part? Much of this upheaval traces back to a little-known think tank that was…

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  • bdot@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    here’s a quote from the article, about what the think tank believes : “Its messaging leans heavily on the idea that homelessness persists not because of poverty or a shortage of affordable housing, but because service providers are enabling poor behavior.”

    cool cool.