Problem: Half a million people don't have a place to live. There are nearly 18 million empty homes in this country.
Answer: Give the homeless a place to live. It's honestly an easy problem to solve, and it's cheaper than what the military spends on a lot of random crap we don't need. Literally just give people who can't afford housing a place to live. We should not wait to solve homelessness until we can solve drug addiction and mental health issues or systemic economic issues. Literally just provide the thing that the homeless don't have. It's cheaper than the time law enforcement spends tracking people down and enforcing loitering laws, emergency services spends on these folks, social workers spend trying to find and help these people. Literally everywhere they implement Housing First social policies, homeless goes down and spending on homeless services barely increases if it increases at all.
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