Atlanta is another blue city in a red state that has clearly failed to deal with homelessness. This spring, nearly 100 advocates piled into a Senate committee hearing to demand that the legislature stop debate on any new ideas to get the homeless off the streets and into services. Instead, their only prescription was for more money for the same failed policies. Despite advocates’ best efforts, next week, the state Senate will host hearings chaired by Senator Summers on how to address unsheltered homelessness.
Summers will focus on alternatives to the prevailing permanent supportive housing model (free or subsidized apartments for life with no required treatment or services). In the early 2000s, permanent supportive housing proponents promised to end homelessness in a decade. Despite (or, perhaps because of) the federal government mandating this model, street homelessness has increased since its adoption.
To see why permanent supportive housing is a failure, just look at San Francisco. San Francisco has built enough housing units to house every single chronically homeless individual in the city back in 2011, yet street homelessness has only increased since then. Trump summarized this model’s failure when he said, “To build millions of houses or hold homeless people in luxury hotels, costing a fortune for the government, and have no medical or rehab professionals available—it's fruitless."
Similarly, Representative Dallman’s homelessness reform in Wisconsin passed the state Assembly but died after the Governor made it clear he would veto the bill. Among other things, Dallman’s bill would have instituted pay-for-performance standards for nonprofit shelters to correct the misaligned incentives that often lead to more funding when homelessness gets worse and more visible.
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