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We must address homelessness
Sunday, October 14th, 2012
Oct. 02, 2012
… part of the solution lies in raising welfare rates, creating more housing and creating jobs that match people’s capacity… a rising number of homeless means increasing health-care costs, increasing social services costs, increasing clinical costs, increasing emergency shelter costs, increasing unemployment services, increasing mental health services, increasing addictions services — all of which will come from taxpayers money anyway.
Tags: budget, Health, homelessness, ideology, poverty, standard of living
Posted in Inclusion Delivery System | 2 Comments »
Helping homeless helps reduce crime
Sunday, August 7th, 2011
August 2, 2011
So what do lower crime rates actually mean? To me it means we are doing better at caring for people… Does that mean we should hire more police and pass tougher laws? Maybe. Does it mean we should expand our support for those in poverty? Probably. Do we need more prisons? No, because we put too many non-violent offenders in prison… What I do know is lifting people out of poverty will only continue to drop our crime rates.
Tags: budget, corrections, crime prevention, disabilities, homelessness, ideology, poverty
Posted in Child & Family Policy Context | No Comments »
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