Opinion: Susan Shelley: The ‘housing first’ approach is a failure in California for obvious reasons
If you would like to see graphic evidence of the catastrophic failure of the “Housing First” model to address what is called the homelessness crisis, look no further than the story of the Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles.
The occasion of the city attorney’s statement was a court decision on Friday to place all 29 of the buildings owned by the trust into receivership. Initially, L.A. Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff considered placing just 26 of the buildings into receivership, but when a deputy city attorney presented information about recent overdose deaths, the judge put all the buildings under the control of the new receiver.
Now let’s take a look at what happened in and to the 29 buildings owned by the Skid Row Housing Trust. In lawsuits filed last year on behalf of residents of two of the trust’s buildings, residents “alleged a lack of security” as well as “violence by other tenants.”
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