that tells you housing isn t the issue. if housing were the issue, this would be a thriving intervention, and it s an abject failure. laura: give everybody an idea of how successful this program is, dovetailing from what drew just said, this is what one of the recipients told a local news station, okay? it was completely unlivable. we could not stay there any longer. we went to a shelter for another six months. sad. laura: $89 million, and that is of new york city is paying for? they are ending up down in louisiana and these little towns in utah, and the people there, we don t have the budget for this. we don t have the ability, with all of the spillover issues that occur. absolutely. nobody is providing mental health services they need. this all started in 1963 when president kennedy started the mental health act. they eviscerated the state of the mental health system, and we post all of those patience onto the streets, the prisons, and
the gulf coast and utah, these mayors say we didn t even know they were coming. they had no idea. laura: and bringing lots of problems, tell us about it. it s a sad story. i listen to the mayor talk there, i think to myself, we need to struggle with this. one city in the entire country that has addressed the homeless population honestly, and that is the city of san diego, and they are the only city that is having a significant in homelessness. what is the one thing they have done? they have stopped looking at housing and started looking at the mental health disaster that is playing out on our streets. this is the story, the soda store, as we call it, this program where people are given a year of rent and left to go wherever they want. it s one of the saddest chapters in the homeless story. it makes very appealing sense. we re going to give it a year of rent, go wherever you want to. yes, if housing was the issue, this is the perfect experiment
are receiving the homeless in the gulf coast and utah, these mayors say we didn t even know they were coming. they had no idea. laura: and bringing lots of problems, tell us about it. it s a sad story. i listen to the mayor talk there, i think to myself, we need to struggle with this. one city in the entire country that has addressed the homeless population honestly, and that is the city of san diego, and they are the only city that is having a significant drop in homelessness. what is the one thing they have done? they have stopped looking at housing and started looking at the mental health disaster that is playing out on our streets. this is the story, the soda store, as we call it, this program where people are given a year of rent and left to go wherever they want. it s one of the saddest chapters in the homeless story. it makes very appealing sense. we re going to give it a year of rent, go wherever you want to. yes, if housing was the issue this is the perfect experiment th