(The Center Square) – With homelessness on the rise in Colorado, experts and advocates disagree on how to address the issue.
A recent report from the Common Sense Institute of Colorado, a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting the economy, analyzed the success of a housing first approach to homelessness, versus an intervention or work-first approach.
It concluded, “housing first policies may not be the best approach to addressing this challenge.” Instead, it found that alternative approaches, like work first, “directly address the root causes of homelessness rather than providing unconditional housing.”…