For any of us, think about how unstable your life is if you don't have a place to live. You can't develop effective treatment for the chronically homeless unless they are stable in housing first. You know you have a broken system if you are spending large amounts of money on county health workers and nurses looking under bridges to treat them. |
This kind of comprehensive, wrap-around service is what works. It's just not good for the civic life of a metropolitan area like LA to have a skid row. |