Treatment First – Before Housing Focused Funding – Steer Money to Solutions, Don’t Just Throw Money at the Problem Lower the Cost of Additional Housing and Increase Speed to Market of New Units But some are arguing that treatment without housing is not sustainable either. To that, Cox responded that he was also talking about treatment while being housed. He added that he doesn’t accept that it should be one or the other, but that it should be both at the same time. Cox elaborated that politicians have only housed the homeless, which covered up the problem rather than addressed the cause.