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Number of unsheltered dropped by more than half in this Nevada city after large tent to house its homeless was built
The “Biggest Little City in the World” is earning a new distinction: one of the few cities in the West to get large numbers of homeless off its streets.
The city teamed with Sparks, a neighboring city, and surrounding Washoe County to build a Nevada Cares Campus in 2021 that could accommodate more than 600 people in a giant tent and satellite sleeping pods. Since that year, the number of homeless living on the street has plummeted to 329 this year from 780, according to annual point-in-time counts.
The 58% drop is striking when compared with many other Western cities which have seen their unsheltered homeless populations grow or stagnate since the pandemic, amid soaring drug addiction and a federal appeals-court order that prevents cities in the region from clearing streets without providing enough beds. California has spent about $20 billion over the last five years to combat the problem, yet still has half the nation’s unsheltered homeless.
Once people are off the street and in the tent, the other part of Reno’s approach kicks in: helping them find a job, access other services and move them into permanent housing. Other cities are taking notice.
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If they are homeless, then how are they “cheating society to get everything for nothing?”
Getting straight A’s in school doesn’t preclude someone from having a mental health crisis, financial disaster, etc…
If one must have a spotless record to be eligible for help, it might defeat the purpose.
How lofty a view must you have of yourself that you should determine who is deserving of help surviving?
They are living for free with someone else, eating their food. Or.they are abusing welfare to have a house even though they could hold a job. Once all such programs stop supporting their lazy ways they get a job and prove they can work.
There are a lot of people deserving if help because they are unable to help themselves. However I have personally known a number who are pretending to need help so they can be lazy. Telling the difference is easy in practice, but hard to write down formally.