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  • What little I know about successful public housing initiatives are that they’re very rarely successful on their own. Housing first, yes, but support needs to be an immediate second. Addiction support or mental health support or medical support or food support, etc. It’s rare at least in my area that someone is unhoused and has zero other issues that either contributed to their being unhoused or became an issue as a result of them being unhoused. Putting someone in a safe place is critically important but also will not fix anything on its own beyond “now you are in a safe place.”

    So anything you can do to keep people safe and healthy in their home will mean the dollars spent on putting them in that home are more effective.

    Not sure what you could impact on that front but if you can include some guidance or future planning or even direct funding for those other things too as part of the program it’ll be more successful.