Free houses are great but it’s a small % of the homeless who have the capacity to make a free house work
Section 8/HUD housing will kick you out if they find out you are doing hard drugs in there. Problem is they almost never find out
You would need to screen for particular homeless to give the house to, starting from the top working down for ones without a crippling substance abuse problem, without crippling mental illness, and ideally without a cripplingly low IQ, which a lot have. I mean, you could give the houses to anyone of course, but if the goal is for the house to be a road to self-sufficiency, those at the top of that hierarchy I described are the most likely to have that happen for them. The rest are likely to either leave the house or destroy it
So do we do the kinda mean thing and help out starting at the top of the bottom of the barrel first, or do we waste houses? (Making them super hard to destroy could help but the lowest functioning homeless are likely to leave them eventually anyway)
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