California's homeless population keeps growing. The current approach of throwing money at the problem is clearly not working.
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It’s important to remember the humanity aspect of the crisis. Those on the street are someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, daughter and son. They had a life before becoming homeless. Unfortunate circumstances – loss of employment, mental health, substance addiction, grief or something else – led them to this tragic situation.
It’s not that financial resources are unimportant in tackling the homeless crisis, but it’s time to realize that the problem cannot be solved by money alone. Pouring billions into the issue without a well-thought strategy is like trying to douse a fire with a never-ending supply of gasoline.In the long term, California needs to build more housing and mental health facilities and needs to train and educate more people to provide services at those facilities.
Unfortunately, the measure was shot down by liberal Democrat lawmakers on the Senate Public Safety Committee. Interestingly, these lawmakers did not vote against the measure, they simply refused to cast a vote at all, likely in fear of backlash for once again failing to tackle the homeless crisis.
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