host: i want to get a response from ethan epstein. go ahead.ousing solution you are describing is called low barrier housing, and, as the noter enumerates, it does impose standards about drinking and drugs, and that is precisely what is occurring at the village that i profiled as well. it has been politically controversial, but there is the point that it does not necessarily do these people or anyone any better to be out on the street. host: is there a superintendent or a manager at the property? guest: there is always someone on-site. what is interesting about this particular building is all the people in management are formerly homeless themselves, so there is a real kind of first-hand knowledge about the experience of homelessness. that actually seems to work quite well. host: let's get one more call here, frank, hello there. caller: i do not know where to start. i live in a community in northern california years ago, there was an outbreak of hepatitis because of poor sanitary conditions, and i have been homeless, and i have been a drug addi