{"id":21402,"date":"2023-06-01T21:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21402"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:09:44","slug":"ending-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/ending-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"

They have essentially ended homelessness in Finland. How did they do it? It’s pretty straightforward. They gave them a home. They have a “housing first” policy, which means that people get a house without any caveats — and later they can make use of whatever services they need. Here it is explained by Second Thought:<\/p>\n

How Finland Ended Homelessness<\/a><\/p>\n

As for the US, there’s no way it would work there, is there? Actually, a pilot project was very successful in New York. They point out that housing is a right, even in the US — they signed on to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All that’s needed is money, which the US has, and for minds to rethink this problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They have essentially ended homelessness in Finland. How did they do it? It’s pretty straightforward. They gave them a home. They have a “housing first” policy, which means that people get a house without any caveats — and later they can make use of whatever services they need. Here it is explained by Second Thought: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-21402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-homelessness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21405,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21402\/revisions\/21405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}