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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wrong. Putting one in every ward ensures that everyone has skin in the game and should be committed to addressing homelessness effectively.

PS - It's also a commonly accepted best practice to spread them out rather than cluster them. The more you know ;0)[/quote]

But it ignores the fact that several wards already had skin in the game where it comes to homelessness - in some cases wards that already had shelters and resources for the homeless are getting double hit.  It also doesn't actually spread them out that much - many of Bowser's proposed locations are still effectively clustered together, having been pushed to the edges of wards, and just across the ward boundary is another proposed shelter in the next ward over.  And certainly pushed miles from Bowser's own home.

As for the "commonly accepted best practice" the efficacy and effectiveness of that toward actually improving conditions and outcomes is not proven.  It certainly makes coordinating, providing infrastructure, services and logistics a lot more expensive.[/quote]

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