Brent ToderianDec 13, 2023
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz
Show threadColby Brown
@BrentToderian "Housing First" works. My wife's family was homeless in NYC after a guest locked them out of their apartment in a way that made it impossible for them to go back. Details are hazy (it was the 80's) but what I know for sure is that her mother eventually got hooked up with one of the very first "housing first" experiments in the US. The stability that apartment provided allowed my wife's mother to build a career and gave her daughters a more peaceful place to study.
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