Is homelessness a mental health crisis and addiction, or is it driven by an affordable residential crisis? This question supports the debate between policy makers and politicians who are struggling to get people out of the streets faster than they become homeless.
The researchers say that housing is the most important intervention to end the displacement, and now a a report From the University of California-San Francisco, he gives a deeper look: While the high costs of housing in California and low income pay people to displacement, those who suffer from behavioral health conditions added that they become homeless. Once people lose housing, homelessness makes them more likely to take drugs or face mental health problem.
The report found this Almost half Among the adults who have no shelter in California have a serious mental health condition or use drugs or alcohol, and 42 % of people who regularly use drugs began to do so after they became homeless.
“The complex behavioral health needs, including health and mental problems, increase the risk of becoming shelter, and homelessness increases these problems,” said Margot Kushil, director of the displacement and housing initiative in Benioff at UCSF.
Kushil and others argue that housing and supportive services are very important. Instead, President Donald Trump pays an approach to the first treatment.
During his campaign, Trump called for the transfer of homeless people to large camps and forcing treatment, a punitive approach that he will come with prison time if people refuse.
Now in office, Trump launched a massive attack on “housing first”.
A policy of combating the country has been created at the country level, which aims to make people to permanent housing, during the era of President George W. Bush, and for decades, federal funding went to housing and social services programs.
Indeed, city and boycott officials are informed that the Federal Urban Housing and Urban Development “It will not be implemented“The displacement contracts if they follow the first housing model. Since Trump officials are looking for significant discounts in financing, the president this month He issued an order Reducing a council between American agencies on displacement, which was created during the era of President Ronald Reagan to coordinate homeless initiatives throughout the country.
The focus was on housing and volunteer treatment, even if these promises were provoking many people. Now, these programs will be eroded.
The American Democratic Representative Maxine Waters in Los Angeles warns: “It is not wrong that Trump’s reckless attacks throughout the federal government will operate the housing and displacement crisis in societies throughout the country.”
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