And so when we came in said, let's take inventory of these programs, how can we, with this record fund, how do we maximize this budget to not only house people, to not only get people off the streets and house them, that's called The housing first model is a failed model. We don't just want to warehouse homelessness, we don't want to build a homelessness industrial complex. We want to, we want to attack the root of homelessness, mental illness, drug addiction, substance use disorder. (04:41–04:44)
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