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Tents set up outdoors on a city street
Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness in America Increases to Highest Number on Record

Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness
Homelessness reached the highest number on record nationwide in 2024 according to a report the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released on December 27 in a likely attempt to avoid public attention. Dr. Robert Marbut, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and former Federal Homelessness Czar, says, “HUD spent over 3.16 billion on homelessness in 2024 and continues to attribute rising homelessness to unavailable housing and systemic racism, while ignoring the fentanyl epidemic and untreated mental illness.” Read More ›
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A man is rowing a boat in the ocean
Marvin Olasky
January 3, 2025
Homelessness

Boats Against the Current

Marvin Olasky
January 3, 2025
Homelessness
After writing weekly columns about homelessness for two-and-a-half years, I'm ready to put what I've learned into book form. It will be my 30th book and maybe my last, although (as chapter 12 of Ecclesiastes states) "of making many books there is no end." But since I have written a lot, I'll paraphrase the opening of the Declaration of Independence: "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires" that I declare the reason for writing a book on homelessness when a bunch already exist. Read More ›
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A group of family members hugging or holding hands for comfort, dressed in black, in times of grief
Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

Assisted-Suicide Death Ceremonies Becoming Normalized

Wesley J. Smith
January 2, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
Back in 1991 or so, I was invited by an elderly and ill suicidal friend — along with about 20 of her other pals — to gather in her apartment for a suicide party. Frances' idea was that she would tell us how much we meant to her, we would reciprocate, and she would swallow pills. Instead, all her friends were appalled and held an intervention. Read More ›
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United Nation building, Geneva
Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism

High U.N. Official Supports “Nature Rights” and Environmental Lawfare

Wesley J. Smith
December 31, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
The assistant secretary general of the U.S., Kanni Wignaraja, wants "nature" to go to court so that tribunals can set environmental policy for the world. From her "Nature Goes to Court," published by the U.N. Development Programme (of which she is a regional director): Read More ›
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Top down view at group of volunteers giving out simple meals to people in need at soup kitchen
Marvin Olasky
December 27, 2024
Homelessness

Sentimentality vs. Compassion

Marvin Olasky
December 27, 2024
Homelessness
I almost let 2024 slip away without a column about the 30th anniversary of The Homeless, an important book by scholar Christopher Jencks published in 1994. It included these sentences: "The homeless are indeed just like you and me in most respects. . . . But important as such similarities are, our differences are also important. To ignore them when we talk about the homeless is to substitute sentimentality for compassion." Read More ›
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Homeless people sleeping in sleeping bag and cardboard in a street, concept of financial crisis, unemployment, lose job, vulnerable groups.
Marvin Olasky
December 20, 2024
Homelessness

In the Life of a Homeless Man

Marvin Olasky
December 20, 2024
Homelessness
With Christmas coming, I'm taking a timeout from my usual columnizing to send greetings to Tony, a homeless man in Colorado. He is 67 years old and may be sleeping in a North Face sleeping bag within an abandoned 144-square-foot wooden structure adjacent to a cemetery. (His summer bed has been a picnic bench about a third of a mile from a Safeway/Starbucks.) Read More ›