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Rehabilitation .vs Enabling

The current state of how our society manages the homeless situation, in fact, enables the homeless with poor results. Homelessness is not the fault of society, but rehabilitation is the obligation of society. Handing the homeless small amounts of food and cash assistance which basically keeps these people from dying on the street, and programs, such as the "Tiny Home" program in San Jose, enables these people. The only way to get the homeless off the streets is to provide a full suite of rehabilitation services that include dorm-style housing, meals, laundry services, medical and dental services, mental health therapy, drug rehabilitation, access to transportation, access to computers and the Interner, pet care, and job placement programs. All of which can be provided utilizing existing benefits offered to the homeless reallocated to homeless rehabilitation facilities, offering all the above services in a safe, caring environment.
There are 90,000+ homeless people on the streets in California. The Governor’s office wants to spend 1.4 billion dollars to fix the problem. We could build rehabilitation shelters for all 90,000 people for 388 million dollars.

And, we could convert the existing free shelters to pay-to-stay rehabilitation facilities by providing guidance and software.

If social service agencies in California spend an estimated 38 million dollars a month in food and cash benefits for the homeless on the street, maybe $350 for each person, which isn't getting people off the streets. Allow the homeless to spend their benefits at pay-to-stay rehabilitation facilities, $12 a day is all it takes. Reallocation of these wasted funds is the only logical solution.

Then, we could rehabilitate the homeless at no additional costs to the taxpayers, forever!

Details of the 1BED4ALL project are available for review at 1bed4all.org



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