{"id":45328,"date":"2014-09-17T22:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/sometimes-it-takes-money-to-save-money-social-policy-wise.html"},"modified":"2014-09-18T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:52:28","slug":"sometimes-it-takes-money-to-save-money-social-policy-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/sometimes-it-takes-money-to-save-money-social-policy-wise.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it takes money to save money, social policy-wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional approach is to try and treat the underlying problems of the chronic homeless, so that then they are stable enough to keep a home. It turns out that actually getting the chronic homeless into a home makes it a lot more likely that their underlying problems will get successfully addressed. Just as the people of Utah.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;Our system has a fundamental bias toward dealing with problems only after they happen, rather than spending up front to prevent their happening in the first place. We spend much more on disaster relief than on disaster preparedness. And we spend enormous sums on treating and curing disease and chronic illness, while underinvesting in primary care and prevention. This is obviously costly in human terms. But it&rsquo;s expensive in dollar terms, too. The success of Housing First points to a new way of thinking about social programs: what looks like a giveaway may actually be a really wise investment.&#39;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/09\/22\/home-free'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3FfGFcCRDQ8iynsZ5hWMyHWc6Zd9v1v20psf_OY2zQmXuAJJtOhuiLX6oTSCQcOXeuwbt11JqJb-RDJJq2M0wIBEcySuUWdXhy7LU82xzIdUlIRQKA=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2014\/09\/22\/home-free'>Home Free?<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCredit Illustration by Christoph Niemann\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/g3US2xhUdEe'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional approach is to try and treat the underlying problems of the chronic homeless, so that then they are stable enough to keep a home. It turns out that actually getting the chronic homeless into a home makes it a lot more likely that their underlying problems will get successfully addressed. Just as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/sometimes-it-takes-money-to-save-money-social-policy-wise.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes it takes money to save money, social policy-wise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,528,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economic-justice","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":134566,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/americans-want-heroes-not-care-workers.html","url_meta":{"origin":45328,"position":0},"title":"Americans want to be heroes, not care workers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Sep-17 11:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting article on an interesting observation: Americans go gangbusters to help in an emergency -- throwing donations, giving blood, doing the heavy lifting to help people in crisis survive. 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