When President Joe Biden recently announced his “House America ” program to address homelessness, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was delighted. After all, it represented a continuation of California’s "housing first" approach to homelessness.... .....In October 2020, HUD and the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness released a federally commissioned report — the first ever report on the efficacy of "housing first" policy. In June, the Biden administration quietly removed this report from the government websites housing it..... Why would Biden and House Democrats want to hide this report? That's easy: because it revealed that "housing first" is a failure....
