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You Can’t Arrest a Housing Shortage: Why Anti-Homelessness Laws Don’t Work, by Daniel Herriges July 3, 2024
"...The research is quite clear on this: Homelessness reaches epidemic levels in communities where housing is far too expensive and there is not enough of it.
Let’s unpack this a little. There are individual determinants of homelessness, and there are societal determinants of homelessness. The former are factors in someone’s life that might explain why an individual becomes unhoused. The latter are the reasons the rate of chronic homelessness varies dramatically from one city or region to another.
...Arresting those sleeping on the streets, cycling them in and out of jail or levying fines they almost certainly can’t pay is not any sort of effective response to the problem. It’s not even a Band-Aid for the problem; it’s more like vaguely dabbing at an open wound with a tissue..."
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/7/3/you-cant-arrest-a-housing-shortage-why-anti-homelessness-laws-dont-work
#Homelessness #HousingCrisis #LivingWages #Economis #Affordability #Zoning
"...The research is quite clear on this: Homelessness reaches epidemic levels in communities where housing is far too expensive and there is not enough of it.
Let’s unpack this a little. There are individual determinants of homelessness, and there are societal determinants of homelessness. The former are factors in someone’s life that might explain why an individual becomes unhoused. The latter are the reasons the rate of chronic homelessness varies dramatically from one city or region to another.
...Arresting those sleeping on the streets, cycling them in and out of jail or levying fines they almost certainly can’t pay is not any sort of effective response to the problem. It’s not even a Band-Aid for the problem; it’s more like vaguely dabbing at an open wound with a tissue..."
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2024/7/3/you-cant-arrest-a-housing-shortage-why-anti-homelessness-laws-dont-work
#Homelessness #HousingCrisis #LivingWages #Economis #Affordability #Zoning