Financing programs to increase home ownership involves developing multiple funding sources. Many programs subsidize down payments since coming up with a large cash sum is a frequent barrier for first-time buyers. Long-term solutions to homelessness address the problems that caused people to be homeless in the first place. Successful programs meet people's immediate need for decent shelter while helping them address complex personal and financial issues, including unemployment, substance abuse, and domestic violence. As many as half of all homeless adults become homeless when they are evicted because they don't have the money to pay their rent.
Successful solutions begin during infancy.
Home visits by trained nurses and teachers to infants and preschoolers reduce child injuries, child abuse, and substantially reduce arrests for those children through their adolescent and teen years. Schools that teach students in all grade levels how to manage stress and solve problems through communication rather than fighting reduce violence. Rehabilitation and drug treatment programs for youth and adults offenders reduce their risk of committing repeat crimes. The programs that work start teaching elementary school students, as young as the first grade, ways to control their emotions and deal with problems through communication, not fighting. Long-term solutions reinforce and continue this training through all grade levels.