Gavin Newsom Thinks Doctors Should Write Prescriptions For Housing The Same Way They Do With Medication?

Can't believe no one has thought of this yet https://t.co/Z2UHP48dq0

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 19, 2020

If there’s a problem with your ability/access to do the work necessary to maintain a roof over your head, or seek temporary government assistance to do so, then just giving houses away like we’re on the Oprah show is going to result in the same anyways.

That’s completely a$$ backwards.

What are the parameters of these housing prescriptions to decipher the home I receive?

Honestly, I feel like I’d be my happiest in a seven bedroom home, fully furnished with Ashley Home Furniture (none of that Goodwill crap because my mental health is not hand-me-down material), a wrap-around porch, three acres equipped with ponies, and throw in about five golden retrievers. Kay, thanks.

Oh, don’t forget to provide the crew to do all the cleaning and yard work because, let’s be honest, I won’t do any of it.

Come on, people. Is the weed getting to everyone that badly? Because this sort of far-fetched, humanistic, virtue-signaling BS usually comes from cloud nine.

I grew up in Section 8 housing and witnessed the communities firsthand. The treatment of mental health MUST precede, or be an incentive of, the received benefit in order to ensure the responsibility can be effectively maintained. Otherwise, it’s nothing but learned helplessness and pure enabling.

The Daily Wire reported:

Far-left California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said on Wednesday that he believes medical doctors should be able to prescribe people housing in the same manner that they prescribe medication to people who are sick.

“Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?” Newsom said during his State of the State address. “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.”

“Why not?” Newsom continued. “That’s the aim of CalAIM, transforming Medi-Cal as we know it, backed by a $695 million budget request to make this real.”

“Of course, the effectiveness of all of this hinges on an individual being capable of accepting help, to get off the streets and into treatment in the first place,” Newsom added. “Some, tragically, are not. That’s why we need better legal tools, ones that allow local governments, health providers, and law enforcement to more effectively help people access the treatment they need.”

“California’s behavioral health laws may have been ahead of their time, but today, call out for reform,” Newsom continued. “We must tailor these policies to reflect the realities of street homelessness today, which are so different than they were 50 or even 15 years ago when these laws were enacted.”