Homeless Policy Becomes New Target of the Right

“The bipartisan approach that has dominated federal homelessness policy for more than two decades is under growing conservative attack,” the New York Times reports.

“The policy directs billions of dollars to programs that provide homeless people with permanent housing and offer — but do not require them to accept — services like treatment for mental illness or drug abuse. The approach, called Housing First, has been the subject of extensive study and expanded under presidents as different as George W. Bush and Barack Obama. President Biden’s homelessness plan makes Housing First its cornerstone and cites it a dozen times.”

“But Housing First has become a conservative epithet.”

Wall Street Journal: Homeless numbers rise in U.S. cities.