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<time datetime="2022-05-26T20:20:07.223Z">May 26</time>
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For decades, people have claimed that homelessness is just a
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housing problem. Sure, many also have substance use and mental
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illness issues. But if we just give homeless people their own
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own studio apartments, and decriminalize public camping,
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drugs, and shoplifting, the problem will go away, many
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claimed.
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That hasn’t happened. Instead, the open drug scenes have
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worsened. Nationally, drug overdoses and poisonings increased
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from 17,000 in 2000 to 108,000 in 2021. And California, which
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pioneered the “Housing First”/decriminalization
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approach saw its homeless population increase 31% between 2011
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and 2020, even as homelessness declined 18% in the rest of the
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country.
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</p><p>
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I debunked the lies about homelessness in
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<em>San Fransicko</em>, in hundreds of articles, and on dozens
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of TV and podcast appearances. But when it comes to educating
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the public, nothing has been more impactful than the video
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interviews of homeless people that I’ve conducted over
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the last few months with my friend Leighton Woodhouse, a
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documentary filmmaker, as part of my run to become governor of
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California.
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</p><p>
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Now Leighton has assembled those interviews into a two-minute
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20 second video we’ve posted on Twitter. It’s a
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must-watch. It’s only been on-line for a few hours, and
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over 130,000 people have seen it.
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