In the editor: To effectively reduce the crisis of homelessness, we need more than a motley scattered living house or residence (“A new push to bring housing houses with ‘housing first’ housless model,” May 13). We need to develop large, all institutional institutions (due to lack of a better word) and campuses that can speak substance issues and mental health issues.
Some examples of things that state can do: create a large hospital and community residence at the vine and house that is necessary to be careful, it is a month or one month. Open a university university that focuses on medical careers, mental health, work treatment and so on. Partner with major corporations with adjacent warehouses and fulfillment centers to provide work training for residents. Give to housing near Bakersfield and Tejon Ranch to attract qualified staff housing in place.
As they say: “If you build it, they will come.” It may require a small compulsion for compulsion (claim, a challenge for lawmakers and law enforcement), but the passionate times call for many steps. And these are greater times.
Gra Slavin, Porter Ranch
