“If you can get the right people to the right jobs, you should be able to pick off some tens of thousands into permanent employment. But as you push towards trying to employ those with more profound mental health or substance abuse problems, and who have lived longer in a transient life, it becomes more difficult.”
“If a person has stable housing but has a current mental health or substance abuse problem with which they are not getting any support, it is going to put a strain on employment.”
“The number of homeless households in temporary accommodation has soared from 6,400 to more than 100,000 since 1976, while the building of social homes has fallen by 87 percent over the same period.”
