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An article in the Washington Examiner:\u00a0 Homeless and clueless in Oakland and elsewhere in America <\/em><\/a>\u00a0criticizing the approach to the problem by liberal politicians in Democrat-controlled cities and states would be unsurprising if the author were Heather MacDonald or Larry Elder.\u00a0 It is surprising when ultra-liberal former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris pairs up with Mary L.G. Theroux of the conservative Independent Institute to write “The bright side of the bay, as Oakland is known, has followed the same failed game plan as most other cities.\u00a0 And that’s why the homeless crisis persists.\u00a0 Unfortunately the Biden administration plans to continue subsidizing the losing strategy.”\u00a0\u00a0 For most of his long political life Harris has been advancing the liberal, bureaucratic, big government policies that have helped create today’s homeless crisis.\u00a0 He is now confronting the endlessly repeated claims of Democrats in California and nationally that the root cause of homelessness is a shortage of affordable housing.\u00a0 “The change began in 2013 when the Obama administration shifted the focus of federal homelessness funding from programs that provide services to the homeless to their speedy placement into housing.\u00a0 The approach had the opposite effect from what was intended.”<\/p>\n

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“The shift to housing as the primary solution to homelessness was adopted by California with similarly abysmal results.\u00a0 Homelessness increased from about 139,000 statewide in 2007 to 161,548 in the latest count.\u00a0 Despite the fact that California houses\u00a0 just 12% of the U.S. population, the numbers show it now has 27% of the country’s total homeless population.”<\/p>\n

Some politicians have claimed that it’s California’s mild weather that has drawn the homeless to the state but “Florida, Georgia and Texas, other states with generally mild weather, all saw their homeless populations decline during this same period.”<\/p>\n

“As much as California leaders hate to have our state compared to Texas, if they want to know what works, they should visit San Antonio….San Antonio and greater Bexar County developed a systemic approach to the problem involving emergency medical services, local hospitals, law enforcement, mental health resources, and nonprofit service providers. Instead of working in silos, they work collectively, in coordination with a communitywide nonprofit organization, Haven for Hope of Bexar County , which provides services based on the needs of each person. The program doesn\u2019t ignore housing, but it also doesn\u2019t overemphasize it. Since the effort became operational in 2010, the county has seen an 11% decline in total homelessness and a 77% decline in unsheltered homelessness in downtown San Antonio.<\/p>\n

Programs such as this are designed for success rather than in accordance with whatever approach is in political favor. They also don\u2019t just throw money at the problem: They set goals and use metrics based on outcomes to track and reward success. In the process, the streets become safer and more livable, while homeless people get the help they need.”<\/p>\n

When lifelong liberal politicians like Elihu Harris advocate common sense, it is evidence that a tipping point may have been reached.<\/p>\n

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An article in the Washington Examiner:\u00a0 Homeless and clueless in Oakland and elsewhere in America \u00a0criticizing the approach to the problem by liberal politicians in Democrat-controlled cities and states would be unsurprising if the author were Heather MacDonald or Larry Elder.\u00a0 It is surprising when ultra-liberal former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris pairs up with Mary L.G. Theroux of the conservative Independent Institute to write “The bright side of the bay, as Oakland is known, has followed the same failed game plan as most other cities.\u00a0 And that’s why the homeless crisis persists.\u00a0 Unfortunately the Biden administration plans to continue subsidizing the losing strategy.”\u00a0\u00a0 For most of his long political life Harris has been advancing the liberal, bureaucratic, big government policies that have helped create today’s homeless crisis.\u00a0 He is now confronting the endlessly repeated claims of Democrats in California and nationally that the root cause of homelessness is a shortage of affordable housing.\u00a0 “The change began in 2013 when the Obama administration shifted the focus of federal homelessness funding from programs that provide services to the homeless to their speedy placement into housing.\u00a0 The approach had the opposite effect from what was intended.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nFinally, Some Common Sense From Liberals About the Homeless - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=5519\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finally, Some Common Sense From Liberals About the Homeless - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An article in the Washington Examiner:\u00a0 Homeless and clueless in Oakland and elsewhere in America \u00a0criticizing the approach to the problem by liberal politicians in Democrat-controlled cities and states would be unsurprising if the author were Heather MacDonald or Larry Elder.\u00a0 It is surprising when ultra-liberal former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris pairs up with Mary L.G. 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