Homelessness is a Housing Problem
Sounds like a no-brainer, but in most cases homelessness and housing are seen as separate issues. Changing the homelessness mindset to a housing mindset broadens everything and gets those operating in both, mostly separate arena, working together.
“Using accessible statistics, the researchers test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain why, for example, rates are so much higher in Seattle than in Chicago. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a more convincing explanation.”
