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Homelessness Up 20% Under Newsom as Trump Admin Rolls Out ‘Treatment First’ Alternative

Three federal agencies gathered in San Diego on Wednesday to announce a new “treatment first” approach aimed at addressing California’s long-running homelessness crisis.

Since 2016, California has followed a “housing first” model after then-Gov. Jerry Brown required state-funded homelessness programs to incorporate its core components. On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)  jointly rolled out a different strategy. 

HUD Secretary Scott Turner exclusively told the Daily Signal the program pairs treatment with housing to build self-sufficiency among people experiencing homelessness.

“It’s not just treatment. What they’re used to is just housing. This is a totally different mindset. It’s treatment with housing. They have to go together. You can’t just house people and then leave them. That’s how you create a homeless industrial complex,” Turner said. “People literally getting placed inside of houses that are addicted to drugs and dying in that house because of housing first.”

“We are literally this continuum of care. It’s all in the name. You house them. You continue to treat them. You get them transformed, and then you get them to a life of self-sufficiency,” Turner added. “Again, there’s going to be pushback because people don’t want change. People don’t want transformation. People want the status quo.”

The administration describes the new approach as a first-of-its-kind toolkit that offers communities “practical and proven strategies to help Americans transition from homelessness and addiction to recovery and self-sufficiency.”

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