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user-inactivated · 3768 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ethics and the cult I'm being forced to join
I maintained an HMIS for three years (not the one you're using, it doesn't exist anymore because none of us wanted to deal with that shit anymore), I know what you're talking about. I think you might have read "lying through your teeth" as more disapproving than I meant it. Telling the people with the money what they need to hear is what you've got to do, so it's what you do. It would amount to the same thing and waste far less time if grants came down to the local level with very loose restrictions along the lines of "use this to do stuff for homeless people" and reporting requirements amounting to letting an accountant check that you did.