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  • Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

    Sarah McClure

    November 09, 2020 |

    70 Million |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Even while Los Angeles police criminalize homelessness with "sweeps" to clear encampments from public property, state and local programs have helped thousands of people find housing and receive services like counseling and criminal record expungement. Programs like LA DOOR and Project Roomkey use public-health and housing-first approaches to address people's underlying problems rather than subject them to endless cycles of arrest and incarceration, all of which cost far more than the helpful strategies while remaining far less effective. Street outreach is done without police escorts, to build trust.

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