Alan Graham

What were they called?

SROs, hotels and stuff like that.

And it was just for homeless people?

No, it's for people that lived in poverty.

And then over that period of time, since the 1970s up till now, there's been this creeping affluence dictated by the government.

as to what housing quality standards should be for people, as opposed to, I'm going to help you get up off the streets.

Here's a sustenance to get you off the streets.

You choose where you're going to live with that sustenance.

Raised the standards, but these places were also...

in neighborhoods where people didn't want those people in their neighborhoods.

So it's kind of a confluence of not in my backyard, plus this elevation of these housing quality standards that makes a place like Community First Village, which you have seen firsthand, not approved by the United States government, housing and urban development.

Yeah, we have to change this.

We have to open the door to vast innovation to get people out of this into places that they can afford.

Well, let's – we've got to look at the facts.

What I would do – there's a great podcast that came out recently through NPR called Lost Patients, P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S.

that goes through the historical background of that entire debacle.

And it really begins with JFK.

And the effort and the exclamation point was put on during the Reagan administration.

People want to blame Ronald Reagan, but it wasn't Reagan.

It was lots of people, all of us, we the people, frankly.