Weaselpiggy t1_iweifoi wrote
Didn’t Salt Lake City have a pretty progressive housing first policy a while back?
jhystad t1_iweiqpx wrote
It was and is the first of its kind. Many cities have used there paradigm as a model to combat homelessness in other cities.
Weaselpiggy t1_iwejant wrote
Yeah I am just doing a little reading on it and it sounds awesome. I hope the program continues and we can see data to support this humane policy. Reductions in hospitalizations, reductions in emergency service utilizations, I bet it’s fiscally better to house people even with the high costs of the program.
jhystad t1_iwejpdv wrote
Apparently, it's 1/2 the cost to house the homeless and offer them programs for addiction and mental health issues than ending up in hospital and jail where most eventually end up.
Weaselpiggy t1_iwel4jn wrote
That’s uplifting!
gregorydgraham t1_iwfcz1c wrote
Cost savings so uplifting right now!
lastdiggmigrant t1_iwg5y5n wrote
Sure, it was great, right up until Operation Rio Grande which just criminalized being homeless. After that, everything changed for the worse. The treatment of unhoused peoples in Salt Lake City is abhorrent. I am cautiously optimistic about this Tiny house vision, but what I have seen provokes serious skepticism.
nwahsaj t1_iwfxag7 wrote
Well it’s not working since there’s still a shit ton of homeless people here
jhystad t1_iwg0gjh wrote
In SLC?
corythegreatdeesnuts t1_iwhdb4z wrote
Oh yeah
Tenter5 t1_iwi3sut wrote
Don’t let slc fool you, they are pretty bad to homeless.
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