{"id":583222,"date":"2021-07-05T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583222"},"modified":"2021-07-05T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T19:51:19","slug":"watch-what-do-we-do-about-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-what-do-we-do-about-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: What Do We Do About The Homeless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-what-do-we-do-about-the-homeless%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583222&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-05-at-1.49.29-PM.png?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In the latest 5-minute video for PragerU, Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, breaks down what we can do about \u201cone of the most vexing public policy problems\u201d in the United States: Homelessness.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To tackle the problem correctly, we have to identify a few facts about it. First, argues Rufo, the homelessness problem isn\u2019t primarily a housing problem; It\u2019s a human problem, of which drug addiction and mental illness are the major contributing factors.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Second, homeless people make \u201crational decisions about where they want to live,\u201d and unsurprisingly, \u201cmove to the most permissive environment they can find,\u201d says Rufo.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, the Venice Boulevard underpass between Los Angeles and Culver City has a massive problem with homelessness \u2014 but only on one side. The Culver City side, which has policies they enforce against public camping and drug consumption, is empty; Meanwhile, the Los Angeles side, which decriminalizes these behaviors, is full of tents.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Seattle, Washington, more than fifty percent of the homeless people in the city moved there after becoming homeless somewhere else. Of these homeless migrants \u2014 in one survey \u2014 16% said they were traveling when they decided to stay longer, 15% said they moved for the homeless services, and 10% said they came for access to legal marijuana.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Many of the homeless who stay in Seattle are regular offenders of property crimes, says Rufo, who notes that few of them are held accountable by the criminal&nbsp; justice system.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So, is the homelessness problem destined to only become worse?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf our goal is to make life as attractive as possible for the homeless, the answer is yes. If our goal is to actually help the homeless, the answer is no,\u201d argues Rufo.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One big-city Democrat who has handled the homelessness problem well, says Rufo, is Sylvester Turner, the mayor of Houston.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Turner\u2019s approach involves housing for the homeless, collaborating with non-profit organizations, and lobbying the state for mental health funding. However, Turner also enforces anti-camping policies, and discourages residents from giving money to panhandlers. There are also consequences for aggressive panhandling and obstructing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOver the past eight years, Houston has reduced its homeless population by 54% while it has skyrocketed in West Coast cities. Different policies, different results,\u201d says Rufo.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As Rufo notes, this success can&nbsp; be attributed to a mixture of \u201ccompassion\u201d and \u201ccommon-sense enforcement.\u201d It\u2019s a strategy Turner calls his \u201ctough love\u201dapproach.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf cities stop allowing public encampments and open drug consumption and start prosecuting property crimes, they will have much more success redirecting the homeless away from a life of self-destruction and toward a life of hope through mental health treatment, drug rehab, and job training,\u201d says Rufo. \u201cThat\u2019s what we all want, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>WATCH:&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Do We Do About the Homeless? | 5 Minute Video\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8md0LSsVsR4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest 5-minute video for PragerU, Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, breaks down what we can do about \u201cone of the most vexing public policy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314032,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-05-at-1.49.29-PM.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: What Do We Do About The Homeless?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-05-at-1.49.29-PM.png?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: What Do We Do About The Homeless?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}