Policy for Protest
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@PolicyProtest
Evidenced Based Policy, not selective use of facts. Exposing anti-people policy as an act of protest.
State of emergency on day one. Creating LA’s first program to get encampments cleared and put people inside. Down two years in a row, down 18%.
You also are just complaining about the costs without any concern about the impact. But let’s talk about it. The $400,000 per unit figure gets cited often, and it deserves context before anything else. That number reflects construction costs in one of the most expensive building markets in the country, not ongoing service costs, and it is a one-time capital expenditure amortized over decades. The relevant comparison is not $400k vs. zero. It is $400k vs. the cumulative cost of the alternative. For transitional age youth (TAY), roughly ages 18 to 25, PSH is not a luxury intervention. It is a narrow window. This age range represents a critical developmental period where homelessness causes disproportionate and lasting harm. Young people who experience homelessness during this window are significantly more likely to develop chronic substance use disorders, serious mental illness, and long-term housing instability than adults who become homeless later in life. The brain is still developing through the mid-20s, making trauma, instability, and untreated mental health conditions far more damaging at this age than at 35 or 45. The cost comparison that actually matters: a single TAY individual cycling through emergency rooms, psychiatric holds, detox, jail, and shelter over two or three years routinely generates $80,000 to $150,000 in public system costs annually, with no stabilizing outcome. PSH with wraparound services, by contrast, consistently reduces ER visits, incarceration, and psychiatric hospitalization among housed youth. Studies of TAY PSH programs, including ones run through the Corporation for Supportive Housing, show reductions of 40 to 60 percent in emergency service utilization within the first year of housing placement. The intervention pays for itself relatively quickly when those downstream costs are counted. There is also a recidivism and workforce dimension that critics of cost tend to ignore. Young adults who stabilize through PSH during the TAY window are meaningfully more likely to complete education, maintain employment, and exit to independent housing than those who cycle through shelter or remain unsheltered. Homelessness at 20 that goes unaddressed frequently becomes chronic homelessness at 35, at which point the intervention costs are higher, the outcomes are worse, and the window for workforce participation has narrowed significantly. The $400k unit is cheaper than a lifetime of system involvement. For TAY specifically, the wraparound services bundled with PSH, including mental health care, substance use treatment, life skills support, and education or employment navigation, address the specific reasons young people lose housing in the first place. Without those services, housing alone has lower retention. With them, TAY PSH programs nationally report housing retention rates above 80 percent at 12 months. That is not a failing model. That is a functional one being asked to operate without adequate funding for the clinical infrastructure it requires. The honest critique is not that PSH costs too much. It is that the construction financing model in California drives up per-unit costs in ways that could be reformed. That is a real and solvable problem. But the solution is better construction policy, not abandoning the population with the highest potential return on early intervention. Again, if you hate poor people, say that, but the data is on my side not yours or the villain that is @spencerpratt
Why are American leftists so reluctant to confront the meat industry? vox.com/future-perfect…
I know what “TAY” represents. It is a joke. 15-18 are minors and as such cannot “transition” anywhere. At 19-24 you are an adult, start acting like one. My bottom line Policy Protest is that there should be no opportunity for taxpayer funding for any project like this! The families around these TAY and Philanthropic organizations should and are able to handle this 100%. I guarantee you the money they spend would cover more than 26 dumpy rooms in a bad part of the city! It makes me laugh when you people want me to care for your issues and you waste millions on projects like this and try to justify it! Stop trying to take my money for your causes.
@PolicyProtest @souljagoyteller Useful to learn that 'Other animal products' does not include meat. Very clear.
