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NetQuarterLatte t1_j06v5im wrote

>Mr. Hughes has criticized supportive housing providers for “creaming,” or selectively screening applicants who require the least services, leaving many others to restart the arduous review process. The selection criteria can also vary from one unit to another, further creating a bottleneck.

The devils are in the details.

Without a standard and transparent criteria with a controlled and randomized selection, it makes it impossible to extrapolate the nicer looking "success rate" (98%) of the model to the general homeless population (who may never qualify to the opaque screening criteria applied here)

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strangedigital t1_j076o9w wrote

That is not a negative if stated clearly. They help those who can be helped the easiest at a low cost is a good thing. Rest of the system can be less crowded. As long this is not pitched as the only solution.

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Angrychihuahuaroar t1_j07kehh wrote

I worked in supportive housing. Generally, tenants are selected based on the type of services we can provide on site. Not all housing sites can offer all of the same services for different reasons. For example, a site with nursing staff and a medication monitoring program is going to take people with complex medical or psych needs (or both) while a site that doesn’t have either probably isn’t going to because services that the client actually needs aren’t available.

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