What causes homeless is a lot of things mental health, drug use, low minimum wage, expensive housing VENTURA COUNTY.

Step One: Define the Problem
Step Two: Assemble Some Evidence
Step Three: Construct the Alternatives
Step Four: Select the Criteria
Step Five: Project the Outcomes
Step Six: Confront the Trade-offs
Step Seven: Decide
Step Eight: Tell Your Story

Define the problem: WHAT IS THE ACTUAL PROBLEM?

Not a lot of people have direct deposit/ don’t have bank accounts/ current system of assistant issues around
Is it traffic causing air pollution, leading to mental health issues

What causes homeless is a lot of things mental health, drug use, low minimum wage, expensive housing VENTURA COUNTY
Brain Anerisam addicted to pain pills
Hard to get a job without address or clean clothes
3 Sections of Homelessness
Transitional: Medical Chastrophere
Episodic: In and out of Homlesness (Behavioral Health Issues)
Chronic: People that need help
Bike theft is big in ventura county (LOOK UP STATS AROUND THE WORLD)

Assemble some evidence: Remedies to deal with it. (MOST TIME doing research on the subject matter)

Step Two: What other countries publish homeless? What kinda data they have proposed on homelessness? Look international? Association Mental health or housing? What they say is the best way? Create ways to control the homeless? See what’s being written in other states including in ventura county?

Lack of affordable housing policy (policies in place) state and county level
Post traumatic stress disorder
Mental illness/ Physical disability
Substance abuse
Stats LOCAL Area
https://s33020.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/2020-VC-Homeless-Count-Report-Final.pdf

Construct the alternatives: The best ways to deal with it (homelessness) Start off big and then eliminate.

Possible ways to end homelessness in VTA county
Give money, create tent compounds, existing housing stock, use hotels
How to take care of this?
Community Based outcome (community based problem solving)
Invisible people * complaint but dont do anything about it asking like they are not real humans
Get supply coming together for problem solving
Rehabilitation centers
WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING look at LA stats (Measure H) https://homeless.lacounty.gov/news/measure-h-year-one-report-card/
Use International policy https://endhomelessness.org/ending-homelessness/policy/
Mississippi Policy on homelessness https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/2015/title-43/chapter-1/mississippi-interagency-council-on-homelessness/section-43-1-101

Select the criteria: How do you know your success and what is the outcome?
Trade off the most cost effective way to do it

Measure H Year-One Report Card: Nearly 7,500 Permanently Housed and Thousands More Helped with Interim Housing and Services

Measure H
How successful LA, international or california has been since implementing the policy
Qualitative data: https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/case-studies-ending-homelessness-for-people-living-in-encampments/

Reduce by 50% , 25% A WORTHY GOAL THAT YOU WANT

Practical Criteria: Real world
Elective official or resident be okay with it or sign off on it
Political opposition when its comes to housing

Project the outcomes: Decision Matrices
A way of saying what are your policy alternatives based on criteria?

Give rent, build new housing stock, existing hotels, use campgrounds
RANK THE ALTERNATIVE, policy, cost, etc

Confront the trade offs: Reaching your goal
Which is the most likely to get it? It’s going to cost the governor too much money.

Decide: Supported by your evidence, Analysis is supported

LINKS AND SOURCES

https://calmatters.org/explainers/californias-homelessness-crisis-explained/
https://www.rand.org/topics/homelessness.html
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2020/03/11/homeless-population-2020-ventura-county-california-homelessness/5002000002/
https://homeless.lacounty.gov/quarterly-reports/quarterly-report-20/ talk about Measure H and how we could add it to the current county

Measure H Year-One Report Card: Nearly 7,500 Permanently Housed and Thousands More Helped with Interim Housing and Services

http://bosagenda.countyofventura.org/sirepub/cache/2/nlhqliftcin03dpa54kmwqxj/129400610252021055438448.PDF
Hometown Advocacy: Helping our Ventura Homeless Residents off the Streets
https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2020/03/11/homeless-population-2020-ventura-county-california-homelessness/5002000002/

https://www.usich.gov/tools-for-action/case-studies-ending-homelessness-for-people-living-in-encampments/

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