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The Fousing First model made a lot of sense when I first saw it in 2009. It will take a little time to verify the data based on the night in January census. Deaths could also account for it based on the very little information provided in the article. I would like to have seen some other ratios and counts.

Yes, more data is always good. On the face of it, though, this does seem to be very uplifting news.

My first thought was also wondering about how deaths might play into this. Vets who did combat are an aging population.

Why? How?

Did the homeless veterans all die or were they housed? Pieces of information like this aren't helpful or meaningful as they don't give you a sense of whats actually happening.

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For the 2020 to 2022 period - wasn’t most of the country under an eviction/foreclosure moratorium? I wonder if that plays a part.

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Good point. That probably did play a role. We can conclude the moratorium had a positive outcome.

I wonder how many were "rehomed" into a for profit prison

Yes but the data lacks nuance. If all the homeless veterans killed themselves you could say vet homlessness had dropped by 100%. We need data on what caused them to stop being homeless to extract true meaning from this.

How many of the 11 / 55% died ?

How many vets died from covid complications or opioid overdoses during that period?

Or in caskets. The government doesn’t give a fuck.

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My thoughts exactly

And, being homeless, makes both of their problems more deadly.

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It was a concerted effort by the Obama Administration

https://apnews.com/article/aeee16dd683b4ac0bc4d279b513d76b5

https://apnews.com/article/aeee16dd683b4ac0bc4d279b513d76b5

To get homeless veterans into permanent homes, the Obama administration used a program that was created in 2008 and combines rental assistance from HUD with
case management and clinical services from the VA. Nearly 90,000 so-called HUD-VASH vouchers have been awarded, with $635 million appropriated for vouchers from 2008 to 2016.

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