LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with the mainstream media, are underplaying a dispute over how this country pays for and deals with homelessness.

The dispute is over a policy known as “Housing First.” This policy became popularized under the Joe Biden administration and provides permanent housing for the homeless without conditions, stipulations or a limit on how long a homeless person can stay in the government-subsidized housing.

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The costs of such a policy to deal with homelessness can be staggering. Consider the city of San Francisco. That city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing spent $846 million to address homelessness for an estimated 8,323 homeless people.

Recently, Nessel joined a lawsuit with 20 other states filed against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The complaint alleges HUD is drastically reducing the amount of grants available for permanent housing and shifting it to transitional housing, which comes with limits to how long a person can stay and has certain conditions that must be met. That opposes the policies of Housing First.

According to the HUD press release, 90% of the funding to the Continuum of Care program went to support “Housing First” ideology. HUD called it a failed policy “which encourages dependence on endless government handouts while neglecting to address the root causes of homelessness, including illicit drugs and mental illness.”

“Our philosophy for addressing the homelessness crisis will now define success not by dollars spent or housing units filled, but by how many people achieve long-term self-sufficiency and recovery,” said HUD Secretary Scott Turner in a press release. “We are stopping the Biden-era slush fund that fueled the homelessness crisis, shut out faith-based providers simply because of their values, and incentivized never-ending government dependency.”