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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Homeless programs are promising excuses
Description: Full text: The Portland region’s top homelessness officials delivered another set of promises and excuses in a statement last Thursday.
Instead of cutting off funds to failed approaches, our policymakers promise to “permanently end homelessness” with another $1 billion over ten years. In the same breath, they blame untreated mental health and substance abuse disorders for the homelessness crisis, the very thing their programs failed to do.
These are the direct results of programs that promised to “end” homelessness with a “Housing First” approach since 2005. A Housing First approach believes that homelessness can be solved by simply keep...