Comments on: Addressing Homelessness through Community Courts http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/08/28/addressing-homelessness-through-community-courts/ Join the Debate! Read and comment on articles posted on actlocallysf.org. Fri, 16 May 2008 18:56:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: Lefkos Aftonomos http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/08/28/addressing-homelessness-through-community-courts/#comment-875 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:14:34 +0000 http://actlocallysf.org/blog/topic/2007/08/28/addressing-homelessness-through-community-courts/#comment-875 Living near the corner of 6th and Natoma, I've come to a better understanding of the multiple facets of homelessness and see the Street to Home and Community Court models as effective first steps to dealing with chronic homelessness. Once an individual is housed the next step is providing the structure and support needed to keep them in a home and I suspect providing these services would be less expensive to the city than having to provide emergency medical care to homeless individuals, dealing with the crime associated with homelessness and the decline in property values, business income etc. resulting from a neighborhood with concentrations of homeless individuals. I hope the city will move forward with this type of program.<ul><li><label>Overall Rating</label>: 1</li> </ul> Living near the corner of 6th and Natoma, I’ve come to a better understanding of the multiple facets of homelessness and see the Street to Home and Community Court models as effective first steps to dealing with chronic homelessness.

Once an individual is housed the next step is providing the structure and support needed to keep them in a home and I suspect providing these services would be less expensive to the city than having to provide emergency medical care to homeless individuals, dealing with the crime associated with homelessness and the decline in property values, business income etc. resulting from a neighborhood with concentrations of homeless individuals.

I hope the city will move forward with this type of program.

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