Ten Year Plans? “The Plan To Nowhere?”
There was an interesting article in the Seattle Weekly last week that critiques the Bush’s Administration’s mandate for cities to develop Ten Year Plans To End Homelessness. (Here is the article, “The Plan To Nowhere.”)
The main criticism is that the federal government is mandating cities to develop plans to end homelessness (or else no more HUD funding!), and yet the feds are also reducing federal funds toward homeless housing and services.
They call the Ten Year Plans and the Housing First (that most cities are adopting) movement as “the largest experiment to end homelessness since the latest wave of homeless hit America’s streets in the mid-1980’s.” They are pushing putting homeless people in permanent supportive housing rather than spending exorbitant amounts of money taking care of homeless people in emergency rooms and jail.
The article continues to say that the “talk” goes on while the federal government cut $3 billion from Medicaid (healthcare for the homeless), and $600 million in federal housing dollars.
posted by LA's Homeless Blog at
12:28 PM
2 Comments:
I'm looking at the picture of the blind man sitting and begging for money and thinking it will soon be dead people lying on the sidewalks of America and people just walking by and stepping over them like in India.
Yes,I believe "The Plan to Nowhere" fits quite well.While all of our politicians,both federal and local,sit around and commend each other on what a great service they are doing the homeless by implementing thier special projects,example:(Skid Row Project/Calworks Homeless Project)and feeding the press all their grandious,plans that will take us(homeless) off the streets and then no sooner are we placed in our homes and they cut back funding to the projects that helped us get here.Thus leaving many of us back where we started,homeless. It is such a waste of time and money that could be spent much wiser.I can see that if something is not done real soon and these issues are not adressed quickly,we will see many more people back on the streets and then what will we do?
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