On homelessness: "We know what to do"

SF Chronicle

From the SF Chronicle:

...Nonprofit organizations and medical professionals who work on homeless issues, including UCSF professors and Compass Family Services, also support the measure[Proposition C]. Unlike opponents, they say they are confident that an infusion of so much big cash would make a huge difference on the streets.

Dr. Josh Bamberger, a UCSF associate clinical professor who helped design pioneering homeless housing programs for San Francisco as well as nationally under former President Barack Obama, called Prop. C “an elegant solution to the problem.”

He said injecting hundreds of millions of dollars annually into homeless programs would be akin to the national strategy he helped craft during the Obama years — using the vast, added resources of federal veterans programs — to end chronic homelessness among vets. 

As a result, chronic veteran homelessness has been ended in more than 60 communities and is near an end in San Francisco.

“The solutions are all out there, we know what to do, and all we have to do is connect the dots,” Bamberger said. “For that we need more funding. This would do it.”

See also Housing as healthcare, by Dr. Bamberger.