{"id":1254,"date":"2010-11-11T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2010-11-11T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T17:42:56","slug":"veterans-day-brief-the-lesson-of-denvers-success-in-addressing-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=1254","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day Brief: The Lesson of Denver&#8217;s Success in Addressing Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Compelling Economic and Humanitarian Reasons for Addressing Homelessness.<\/strong> As I continue to write about the ways in which the currently popular <a title=\"Permanent Link to Small Government Idolatry\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=1205\">Small Government Idolatry<\/a>\u00a0pre-empts rather than utilizes the\u00a0analyses necessary not only to knowledgeably weigh costs and benefits of various choices, but also to actually accomplish the &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221; that this particular element of <a title=\"Permanent Link to \u201cPolitical Fundamentalism\u201d\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/?p=984\">\u201cPolitical Fundamentalism\u201d<\/a>\u00a0claims to serve, The Denver Post \u00a0published an article today describing Denver&#8217;s highly successful program (initiated by Mayor\/Governor-elect\u00a0Hickenlooper), which brought both businesspeople and advocates for the homeless into the process, and has reduced\u00a0not only the\u00a0amount of homelessness, but also, quite dramatically,\u00a0the costs\u00a0the homelessness\u00a0imposes on tax payers (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_16580456\">http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_16580456<\/a>). This is what responsible government looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Compelling Economic and Humanitarian Reasons for Addressing Homelessness. As I continue to write about the ways in which the currently popular Small Government Idolatry\u00a0pre-empts rather than utilizes the\u00a0analyses necessary not only to knowledgeably weigh costs and benefits of various choices, but also to actually accomplish the &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221; that this particular element of \u201cPolitical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[872,853,521,871,515,776],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradoconfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}