Re: this idea is not new
This way they rectify the homeless and supply a path to sobriety.
Somehow, I don't think it will work quite that way. The recovery rate for alcoholics is abysmally low anyway, and giving them a subsidized place to stay gives them even less incentive to dry out.
I wonder if they consulted doctors and mental health professionals before going for this plan? The commentary piece doesn't say (but given the general slant of it, he probably wouldn't have said even if they had.)
Also not very well laid out is exactly what these "comfortable apartments" are like. If it's on the order of Motel 6, maybe it isn't as great as Michael Medved makes it out to be.