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And so my real point is that hearing about these fires makes me wonder if we need something different. I’m sure some homeless can be helped by making lower-cost accommodation available. But others need more of a care setting. I don’t mean go back to the old lock-them-up days of mental hospitals, but I don’t think low-cost housing will be enough for all the homeless.

Providing, say, free housing isn't going to fix all the problems. I think that's a bit of a straw man. I think it would help many people, but that approach will definitely not help all people.

I do also think that the evidence shows that an approach that just provides housing first, rather than trying to make people "housing-ready", works better and is overall cheaper, even if one can point at obvious failures sometimes.