Between 2010 and 2024, the United States cut homelessness more than in half for one specific population while the rate for everyone else went up. The population that fell is veterans. The population that did not is the rest of the country.
The argument is not really about which intervention works. The interventions are well studied. The argument is about who we have decided to help. Once that is settled, almost everything else is downstream.
This piece walks through what the veteran trajectory actually proves: the funded portfolio (HUD-VASH, SSVF, GPD), the case management ratios, the wraparound stack, and what those numbers tell us about Housing First when funding is real. It also takes on the silver-bullet trap and treats homelessness as the queueing problem it actually is: inflow, outflow, duration, recurrence.
Read it here: gaitherstephens.substack.com