Lee BogomilGod, these kinds of headlines piss me off no matter how many times I see them:
"40 percent of people helped by Los Angeles mayor’s $300M homeless project have returned to the streets, report finds"
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/los-angeles-inside-safe-program-b2952227.html
The headline just leaves readers to assume the reasons for this outcome, which the news outlet has to know will be based on stereotypes of homeless people as "service resistant" and too mad / drug-addicted to be "housing-ready".
(BTW, please pause here to let it sink in how despicable a concept that is, i.e., that some people are "not ready" for a piece of physical space where their body is legally and socially allowed to exist without getting constantly harassed, arrested, evicted on short notice, having their meager belongings routinely stolen, etc.).
In the unlikely event that one actually reads the full article, they will learn, 10 paragraphs down the page, that the actual reasons for the program's relatively poor effectiveness have much more to do with arbitrary and unrealistic expectations baked into its design, as a short-term "interim housing" scheme that does not even attempt to address the underlying problem that there simply is no available housing that is affordable for people with very low incomes:
"UCLA Law School professor emeritus Gary Blasi told the newspaper that there were not enough housing vouchers and low-cost apartments to provide permanent housing for program members, putting the program on [a] track that is 'just not sustainable' and funnels money into expensive motels rather than long-term solutions."
