We know this housing crisis is not going to be ended by shelters like ours. We are clearly a band-aid, right? It's a band-aid that's necessary.
We see it ourselves. People are in the river of poverty, and we're throwing life preservers to people to keep them alive, but we need policy around aggressively hitting how we are going to address the commodification of housing. That has led to huge issues of people being left out. We need to hit on these.
We need to look at how we decriminalize substance use, rather than thinking that by treating people as if they are criminals for substance use we're going to see change—we're not.
We need to look at how we address these root causes, like the access to housing—