Homeless Opinions 2 * 1. Which of the statements best captures your opinion about the country's responsibility towards housing? Housing is, or should be, a right and guaranteed for all persons While housing cannot be a right, the country should do all it can to prioritize housing for all Housing is one of many social needs that government should support It is not the responsibility of the federal and/or state government to provide housing for all citizens * 2. Which of these statements best describes your assessment of the VI-SPDAT initiative? It has been critical to prioritizing and housing the most vulnerable homeless persons It is a good tool, but not a panacea to prioritizing services The VI-SDPAT contains biases and duplication from HMIS that don't make it really worth the amount of effort I am not familiar enough with VI-SPDAT to comment * 3. Do you support the conversion of Transitional facilities into Permanent Housing? Yes, definitely, most of them Yes, some of them No, definitely not Not sure * 4. What is your opinion of the Chronic Homeless definition? It is a good definition that helps identify chronically homeless persons It is a somewhat difficult definition to implement and misses some chronically persons It is a ridiculous definition since it assumes homeless persons can recall information accurately and intake workers can assess diabilities Next