Judge Glock, Director of Research at the Cicero Institute, critiques the outcomes of federal unconditional Housing First policies on American Optimist.
Opinion
Glock: Densification Is Not the Only Solution to Housing Affordability
“The only area where I disagree with sort of the Yimby's and where I think the evidence doesn't bear them out is the idea that, well, densification is the only real solution to the housing affordability crisis. And we shouldn't pay more attention to what's call…”
Assertion Supported
Glock: Cities building homes for every unsheltered person saw homelessness increase
“And yeah, San Francisco, Arizona, these other states and cities, they built enough homes for every single unsheltered homeless person in the street. 1015 years later, they have more homeless people in the streets.”
Assertion Supported
Glock: 70% to 80% of Americans oppose unconditional free housing without sobriety mandates
“When you tell average Americans about this, we do the polls, do you think, ah, you know, basically free homes should be given out with no sobriety or mental health treatments to people on the street? Overwhelming. 70, 80% of people say, of course not. Again, a…”
Opinion
Glock: Housing First's 80% retention rate is a miserable policy failure
“A lot of the housing first groups tout that, hey, you know, 80% of people stay in these units over two years, and to my mind, that seems like a disaster. If I give someone a free apartment and 20% leave for the streets after two years, I have failed miserably.”
Insight
Glock: Serrano v. Priest Destroyed Local California Incentives to Build Housing
“Serrano v. Priest upset the entire the sort of shape of local funding in California. If you were building new sort of housing and developments in your area, or if merely you were increasing the property tax funding in your local schools, you got the benefit. E…”
Assertion Supported
Glock: CA Supreme Court blocked UC Berkeley student enrollment increases under CEQA
“The Berkeley ruling of the California Supreme court where they said you couldn't increase even the number of students at the university of Berkeley. Because of this California lawsuit system where you're allowed to sue just about anything.”