50 billion dollars failed: How to betray the policy of American federal homeless

If the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency at Elon Musk seeks to obtain additional goals in controlling waste, fraud and abuse, it should not exceed the sprawling network of failed homeless programs, full of inefficiency and pouring billions in the crisis you get only worse.

Scott Turner, the newly appointed Secretary of HUD, has not lost time to set $ 260 million in HUD savings, a decisive first step in simplifying an agency that suffers from inefficiency. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Dog has an opportunity to go ahead, as the vast waste in the Federal Manufacturing and Manufacturing Complex is displayed and billions of directors are directed to policies that will actually achieve results.

For more than a decade, our nation was imprisoned in one federation, Federalism, for displacement known as “Housing First”. This model, which promises “housing” forever “without requirements – for sobriety, to participate in treatment, or to search for work – was motivated by former President Barack Obama as the solution that ends in displacement within 10 years.

Instead, displacement exploded to registration levels. The excessive dose deaths rose, and the general turmoil has reached the point of collapse.

The federal government is the biggest fun of displacement programs, as most of its money is distributed through local governments. Since most cities and provinces rely heavily on these federal dollars – which often contribute to their financing less in comparison – their mandate does not effectively dictate how to spend these funds but also constitute a local homeless policy. Consequently, societies are left only with a little adherence to the first housing model, even if they prove ineffective or unspecified with their own needs.

The state of housing for the year 2013 first stripped the comprehensive policy of government financing from programs that require sobriety, workforce sharing, or mental health treatment, as well as from shelters and transitional housing, to increase the number of special housing unit benefits – also known as vouchers – homeless.

The catastrophe we are witnessing should not be a surprise. We softened the regime of the homeless in the country, ignored the accountability, then we were shocked when the displacement rose.

In the name of “sympathy”, we distinguished institutions, and we tell those who fight addiction and mental illness – who make up nearly 80 percent of the homeless population – that they never need to seek treatment, and they never need to work and never need to restore independence. Then, with the depth of the crisis, we multiplied the policies it created.

The financial burden of this failed system is amazing, but the real cost exceeds the billions that have been spent.

The United States is now arming more than $ 50 billion annually to displacement programs. Local governments spend more than $ 700,000 per unit to build permanent housing-often exceeding the cost of one family homes. This number does not explain the annual operating expenses of this housing, nor lifelong costs for one individual housing, which can reach millions.

Meanwhile, the camps multiply, and leave the two companies and taxpayers to bear a constantly widespread financial burden on a system of failure to provide permanent solutions.

Worse, this approach costs life. Excessive drug doses have become the main cause of death among the homeless, as rates rose year after year. However, housing first refuses to admit that addiction treatment should be a requirement, not a subsequent idea. Instead, the current system enables drug use, allowing people to deteriorate behind closed doors instead of treating the root causes of their displacement.

He added losses to societies to mass destruction. Gardens, crossing stations and sidewalks have become camps, undermining public safety and living. The application of the law and emergency services is sunk, and it is mentioned on crises instead of preventing them. The cities are no longer the loss of companies because customers and employees no longer feel safe.

San Francisco, under the mayor of Gavin Newsom at the time, is a good example. She embraced “unwilling housing” for her homeless and addict. After two decades and billions, the city had 13,000 addicts, with 7000 still in the streets. Companies are evading the widespread crime and general turmoil.

We cannot afford another decade or two decades of this costly failure.

Instead, the federal government must preach a “human first” approach – an approach that restores dignity, requires accountability, and helps people rebuild their lives instead of just besieging them in a course of despair. This shift will save billions of dollars in taxpayers and provide real and permanent results.

Michelle Step is the Free Up Foundation Foundation and author of “Answers behind the Red Chapter: Fighting the Displaced Epidem” based on 13 years old CEO of the largest program in North California for homeless women and children.