As an East San Jose school district gets quotes to potentially demolish a former vacant youth center that...
Bramson: We’re triaging homelessness, but not treating its root causes
Walk into any emergency room and you’ll see it: triage. Doctors and nurses move fast to stabilize, assess and keep patients alive. It’s lifesaving work — but no one would confuse it with treatment. That comes later, when the root causes are addressed, not just the symptoms. Right now, our homelessness response is looking more and more like an ER that never quite gets patients into surgery. We’re doing triage well enough to keep things from total collapse. But treatment — the permanent fix — remains out of reach for far too many. Triage solutions in homelessness takes many forms....
