What if California 'prescribed' housing to homeless people? The state is seeking a Medicaid waiver that could soon make it possible.
An abandoned RV made into a home for house Lewis Brown in a homeless encampment near Highway 180 in west Fresno on Feb. 11, 2022. Photo by Larry Valenzuela for CalMattersa commentary forum aiming to broaden our understanding of the state and spotlight Californians directly impacted by policy or its absence.
My own life would have been very different without affordable housing. On a flight back from Guatemala, after spending our first Christmas and New Year’s in my parent’s home country, my dad experienced a life-threatening health emergency. He was hospitalized for two months and spent many more in recovery.
Our housing was a lifeline. It meant that my family, which included two children under 12 — one with a developmental disability — had a stable place to live during one of the most frightening and precarious moments of our lives.found that health emergencies increase an individual’s risk of becoming homeless: Nearly one-third of people indicated that they lost their home because of a health-related reason.
In the same study, most participants said that interventions such as financial assistance could have prevented their homelessness, overwhelmingly believing that modest monthly subsidies or rental assistance would have kept them off the streets.
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