Seems like they are over complicating it…
“Evan’s younger brother had experienced some serious mental health issues and he was awaiting news of a diagnosis.”
“his mother was a schizophrenic and a heroin addict who often paid for her drug habit with sex. They were homeless, moving constantly. Often she would head off for days at a time, leaving Evan with friends or relatives, or sometimes on his own, without food. When he was 11, she took her own life”
“Evan’s father began to suffer with mental health issues. By the time the pandemic arrived, he was in full crisis, using drugs and worried enough about Covid that he had locked himself inside his house. For a week, Evan stayed with him, and they shuttled back and forth to hospital as his father experienced mounting phobias and suicidal thoughts, but refused treatment. At the end of that week, his father took his own life.”
Dude literally had the deck stacked against him.
“The real problem came when Evan inherited his share of his father’s estate – $170,000. He used some of the money to rent an apartment. “But I had extreme schizophrenia and I just filled it with trash because I was so out of my mind,” he says. “I was seeing faces dripping down the walls, I couldn’t even be in there.””
And this, kids, is why the “Housing First” model won’t work. Mental Health and addiction treatment have to come first THEN housing.
It boggles my mind how you manage to dance around every request for science backed evidence focusing only on your preconceived notions. When you weirdly in the most internet way say I won’t read the scientific article cited in the conservative think tank whose only purpose is to skewer housing first and misrepresent it’s working. I read it and note that that they misuse the findings of the journal. Silence.
I ask for scientific studies to support your view. There is now several decades of systematic research to support it’s role in addressing the homelessness crisis. Why? Is it just because you don’t want to read a view that may complicate your prescription? Do you not feel comfortable reading scientific articles? What is going on?
Your definition never mentions the role of case worker in developing goals and creating buy in for compliance. Patience, even highly motivated ones, regularly lapse in compliance. Life changing transformations are not easy.
I provided a quote that we don’t have understanding why people get clean. It’s not because we force them, that’s for sure.
Why do you now bring up 110? Does this have anything to do with Housing First? Or is it part of so opus that addicts are bad children who need to be forced to do what’s good for them?
I don’t think we’re going to meet in a space of mutual understanding. I think your presumptions that there people get clean only if you force them. You just keep on shouting at me that this is true. Show me some evidence because everything I see from scientific studies to front line workers say, “On occasion or happens, but the harm it does to others is far worse.”
It boggles my mind how you ignore repeated direct responses to your questions, almost like you aren’t actually interested in the answers…
Here it is again, 3rd time on one source, 2nd time on the other. Do I need to use smaller words?
I saw it. I read it. I commented on it.
Do you realize that the Cicero Institute isn’t a journal? I wrote elsewhere who they are. They are not a reliable source.
What is wrong with you? Do you not realize we are having a discussion elsewhere in this thread?