S.F. plans to move entire homeless encampments into housing

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-plans-to-move-entire-homeless-encampments-6117833.php

Greg Fairrer lay facedown on the sidewalk in the Mission District on Thursday while one block away San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was trumpeting what could be Fairrer’s salvation — a homeless-aid Navigation Center designed to move entire homeless encampments from sidewalk to permanent homes in just 10 days.,,,

The Navigation Center is one of the most innovative homeless-help experiments being undertaken in the U.S. — meaning that when it opens the week of March 16 at an old high school at 16th and Mission streets, it will be watched not just by every homeless camper in the vicinity, but by aid agencies around the nation....

One-stop help centers exist all over the U.S. — in San Francisco, there’s Project Homeless Connect, a 10-year-old effort to refer the homeless to job training, substance-abuse counseling and other programs that can pull them off the streets.

But what has never been tried is moving full encampments under one roof — dogs and couples and tents and all — and housing them there until permanent housing is found. The Navigation Center will be doing this as a pilot project for eight to 18 months, depending on its success.

[kestrel91316]

1. If they don't get and keep the mentally ill among them on proper meds,

they may as well not bother.

[KamaAina]

2. Don't you think it'll be easier to get them those meds while they're under a roof

than it is while they're out on the street?

[kestrel91316]

4. Of course. But without a huge effort to keep them on those meds it won't do much.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. It's a one stop shop where the homeless will get shelter plus care assessments.

I doubt that they believe it will keep all of them off the street but it should make life better for many of the homeless who just need some stability, safety, and normalcy back in their lives.

It sounds like it's building on proven strategies for assisting the homeless transition back into housing so I'm optimistic.

[yuiyoshida]

5. I JUST LOVE our city...Yes Indeed!

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. ..

[daredtowork]

7. Kick to add more housing! nt

[hunter]

8. Housing the homeless ought to be a federal program.

Otherwise it's just a bus or airline ticket.

Literally.

[KamaAina]

10. There is, in fact, a law that states that surplus federal property

must be used to house the homeless.

It is, however, honored mainly in the breach.

[TheKentuckian]

9. I'm curious of what kind of moving and shaking that is expected in 10 days

but I guess anything beats the harassment, being run out and your few items scattered and destroyed, or the First Blood treatment.

And as always apparently nowadays AVOID THEORY COMMENTS SECTION it is a sewer.
I was hoping San Francisco might not be too bad but these people make one think kindly of Biblical plagues.