This is directly contrary to what has been found to work in practice. Mental illness and drug addiction can take years to treat successfully, and it&#x27;s impossible to treat people who don&#x27;t live in a fixed location. &quot;Housing first&quot; policies treat housing as the first priority, necessary for even gaining access to help people with other problems.<p>Without housing, many of these people gradually become worse off and eventually die. Housing should be treated as a human right, without any special conditions imposed.