Utah (!?!) Proves The Solution To Homelessness Is To Give Away Homes

"Prisons, Not Asylums, Used To House Mentally Ill: 500,000 Behind Bars"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-prisons-routinely-used-to.html

Ronald Reagan was the first political thug to expel mentally ill people from dedicated asylums.

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/

The newly-evicted ended up on America's mean streets, often en route to prison where the annual cost of incarceration is, on average, $30,000.00.

At $600.00 per month for a studio apartment, a year's "rent" costs $7200.00.

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Alan: In the conservative psyche, if "God is God," then "personal irresponsibility" must be punished. Many citizens -- perhaps a majority -- are harbor a "sense of justice" that can only be satisfied when the homeless remain homeless. 

Give the homeless homes. "In 2005, Utah set out to fix a problem that’s often thought of as unfixable: chronic homelessness. The state had almost two thousand chronically homeless people. Most of them had mental-health or substance-abuse issues, or both. At the time, the standard approach was to try to make homeless people 'housing ready': first, you got people into shelters or halfway houses and put them into treatment; only when they made progress could they get a chance at permanent housing. Utah, though, embraced a different strategy, called Housing First: it started by just giving the homeless homes. Handing mentally ill substance abusers the keys to a new place may sound like an example of wasteful government spending. But it turned out to be the opposite." James Surowiecki in The New Yorker.

The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism

The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its insistence on a socio-economic threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right." 

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice,  hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html 

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-hard-central-fact-of-contemporary.html

Almost "to a man," contemporary "conservatives" have apotheosized themselves and now -- sitting on God's usurped throne -- are rabid to pass Final Judgment. 

Self-proclaimed Christians, eager to thrust "the undeserving" through The Gates of Hell, are the very people most likely to cross its threshold. 

Remarkably, none of them are tempted to believe this. 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-fact-of.html

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