Anti-homelessness strategy

This Housing First philosophy has been embraced in the District and elsewhere. In D.C., it has helped place about 1,000 people in homes, said Linda Kaufman, the chief operating officer of Pathways to Housing, which works with several hundred mentally ill, chronically homeless people. "If you don't do housing, you can't address the issues of homelessness," Kaufman said.

I might say the same thing, but it'd still be a duh moment or thing to say.

Framed by 10 objectives, the new national strategy aims to end homelessness among veterans and the chronically homeless by 2015 and among children and families by 2020.

Duh, what are they waiting for; most homeless people to die before they're then moved into a "home"? I don't imagine many homeless people are cheering about the idea of possibly, maybe finally having a residence five to ten years from now.

The Bush administration's anti-homelessness strategy focused on the chronically homeless and as a result, said Mary Cunningham, a senior researcher at the Urban Institute, tens of thousands of people are in supported housing today. To the Obama administration's credit, Cunningham said, that focus has been broadened to include veterans and families with children. "They didn't abandon the previous administration's initiative. They expanded it."

Well, Bush always was a batter of low average or scoring, so expanding on that should be a breeze. How much the expansion will be will indicate whether a stronger hitter is now up at the plate.

Tens of thousands out of over a million makes for a pretty low score, imo; and adding a [few] more thousand isn't going to improve the scoring average much.

What happened to the "three strikes and you're out" policy? Why isn't applied to the top ranks of U.S. politics, which has struck out far more than three times and in many respects, though one of them can be briefly summarized as Reagan, GHW Bush, GW Bush and now Obama. It became excessive long ago.