San Diego's Controversial Homeless Housing Plan: A Costly Failure?

A San Diego business owner and CEO, Kate Monroe, has criticized the city's plan to buy four hotels to house homeless people, calling it a "huge failure" that won't address the root of the problem. The San Diego Housing Commission plans to spend nearly $158 million to house more than 400 homeless individuals, with a per-unit cost of nearly $400,000. Monroe argues that the "housing first" approach will only work for a small segment of the homeless population and won't address addiction or mental illness. She also criticizes the system of continually providing more funds to homeless programs without effectively changing anything.