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Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

2/10/26, 3:18 am120 reposts549 likes

pmcavoy.bsky.social

@pmcavoy.bsky.social

in England in Milton Keynes they were very successful in reducing homeless figures by putting all the services under one roof so they could coordinate - a dr's, pharmacy, mental health, housing, benefits. stopped people falling through the cracks. easy done very effective.

WhisperingSage

@whisperingsage.bsky.social

Coordinating is either easy or simple but never both.

Hamslice 🍖

@hamslice.bsky.social

Milwaukee has a program to put chronically homeless people in an apartment, and even though every dollar spent on the program saves the city and state two dollars, they can’t seem to find more funding for it.

Uh, OK, I guess

@uhokiguess.bsky.social

The state legislature is controlled by Republicans, and they would rather cut taxes than spend it on sevices to help people.

Hamslice 🍖

@hamslice.bsky.social

They also take a third of our state taxes to fund their red counties, Milwaukee has a massive deficit to the rest of the state in that regard.

Andrew W

@drewwiz.bsky.social

What’s amazing is to have a county wide system, but then not give access to everyone who needs it

Paddleboat Galactica

@early-adopter.bsky.social

You wouldn’t even believe how often that’s the underlying problem.