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[quote=Anonymous]And landlords are sued by AG if they do not accept vouchers. The way it is all set up it's difficult to shift any of the key pieces and it benefits landlords (esp in DC with the overpayments) more than transforming the lives of the recipients. A women's shelter in TX that required treatment or job training or education or volunteer work received a staggering fine from HUD but people had been stabilized, had increased self esteem, etc. Sticking mentally ill people or addicts who are more likely to OD when isolated into apartments that have no furniture and may lack food is actually cruel imo.

There was a study in another country that also did Housing First but that required random drug testing with the consequence of losing the until. With that incentive, almost 2/3 were clean after 6 months. HF has no carrots, no sticks, just keys. And the impact on neighbors and communities is huge.

Many voucher recipients are great tenants and neighbors and people. But, 1 bad apple can spoil the barrel and the same is true of a violent and chaotic tenant. One thing that Frumin did raise was a separate eviction track being set up for such folks so it would not be such a drawn out process. Yet, if DC does not pull the voucher, they just cycle a building down or cross the street to Connecticut House, etc. [/quote]

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