Homelessness and Market Forces

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How is a supported housing program 'free market'?

Edit: And how would that help their drug addiction or mental health problems? The figures you cite are comparing different things and I have some doubts to their credibility.

Originally posted by zeeblebot
maybe one guy used $2.9M in hospital costs.

we should have sent that guy to Ireland; we'd only have spent $100K / 14, plus the cost of one one-way ticket.

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Do you wish to claim that providing a house is equivalent to providing drug addiction treatment and 'mental health resources' in terms of treating drug addiction and mental health problems?

Because if not, then it's not comparable and you agree with me despite your silly face.

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I agree wholeheartedly if your point is that the market is a powerful tool and that the state shouldn't see it as an opponent (as unfortunately most of the left sees it) but as a tool and a complement.

Just that providing subsidies for housing on a basis of equity is not advertising for libertarian laissez-faire economics.

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What does supported housing entail exactly? Because none of what you say makes those things comparable.

Is Mangano proposing the end of drug addiction treatments and 'mental health resources' along with his supported housing plan? Are you?

I'm not saying that providing a home for someone has no impact on their drug and mental problems. I'm saying that we can't stop all the other drug and mental treatments just because the guy as a place to call home. Can we?

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Ok, I see your point. His proposal sounds interesting and it sounds like a viable alternative. That I think he's being demagogic doesn't mean I think that what he proposes is wrong.

Without seeing both how he justifies his cost estimation and the cited study, I will remain skeptic about the amounts mentioned.

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sounds so simple doesnt it. be careful, as soon as you start housing everyone who is homeless, the "homeless" will come out of the woodwork in their millions, all looking for a free home. in the real world the homeless are a worst case for people who most often have mental problems and/ or fall out with their families etc for one reason or another.