As I am sure many of you have facebooks. Recently trend at least on my facebook is a short one to two-minute video about a Canadian city that beat homelessness. They follow the housing first idea, which one man in the video talks about. They discuss and show in this video that in the long run it is more beneficial in many ways to get these homeless people off the streets. Continual spending will be happening if people are living on the streets where it can take only about $20,000 a person to build them somewhere to live.

In terms of housing first getting these homeless people off the streets and then working with them to become sober and working people of society is the best way. It is hard to motivate someone to want to stop doing drugs while they reside under a park bench, where if they are given a taste of a better life they may want to get better and work towards that from the safety of their own home and space.

Many people knowledgeable about homelessness would agree with this housing first idea, where those who do not know much about this group of people think it would be too expensive and it is not their problem. We are knowledgeable and it is our duty to help other people become knowledgeable so we can help and solve homelessness one city or town at a time.