How SF's Woke Nonsense Housing First protocols subsidize and encourage substance abuse

While the Fair Housing Act forbids rewarding housing based on race, HUD in 2020 encouraged cities to change their scoring systems to “dismantle embedded racism,” which, they said, can lead to disparate impacts based on race. Judge Glock surveys the disastrous results for our northern neighbor in City Journal.

As a consequence [of the HUD direction], many states and activities provide their own scoring systems, often after adjusting the scoring to emphasize questions to which people of color are, supposedly, more likely to answer yes. In Massachusetts, a homeless individual gets four points for agreeing that "I am currently using alcohol or drugs and not in recovery," but only one point if he has "been in recovery for more than one year." The individual gets an extra two points if he has had an overdose or alcohol poisoning in the past 12 months. In Tacoma, Wash., the gov't says that the scoring system should focus on getting housing for those with "active substance abuse," "frequent criminal justice interactions," and ideally, "a felony." 

San Francisco asks if applicants have "ever had to use violence to keep yourself safe"; answering affirmative yields bonus points for a new house. 

In all these places, getting into recovery or refraining from violence is almost fatal for an applicant's chances for housing and benefits.

This article originally appeared in City Journal. Read the whole thing here.

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