text: Housing  needs to be treated as an public health issue it is. As the article states there is not a shortage of housing but a reluctance of those  who own and reluctant to do so. Studies also show providing housing first helps provide a stable foundation in which additional issues can there be solved.These are LOCAL issues, to provide man with a fish when is hungry is VITAL to TEACH him to fish is everything. We have the talent and the awareness to do so.