Homelessness

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Photo courtesy of Kevin Dahlgren
Marsha Michaelis
June 25, 2026
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Housing First Failed America’s Homeless

Marsha Michaelis
June 25, 2026
Homelessness
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Housing First has not just failed in its promise to end homelessness; it has also been like gasoline on a fire now raging across America. It is built on the claim that we will end homelessness by putting homeless people — most of them suffering from deeply disruptive and life-destroying mental illness or addiction — inside permanently subsidized housing units as quickly as possible. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
June 12, 2026
Homelessness
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Homelessness and Drug Policy Expert Tom Wolf Joins Discovery Institute’s Fix Homelessness Initiative

Center on Wealth & Poverty
June 12, 2026
Homelessness
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Discovery Institute is pleased to announce that Tom Wolf has joined its Fix Homelessness initiative as a Senior Fellow. A leading advocate for treatment-centered responses to homelessness and addiction, Wolf brings both policy expertise and deeply personal experience to the role. Read More ›
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A homeless encampment with multiple tents and scattered belongings is set up on a street under a concrete freeway overpass, highlighting issues of urban poverty
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
June 2, 2026
Economics, Homelessness
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Fix Homelessness Senior Fellow Tom Wolf Quoted in The National News Desk

Center on Wealth & Poverty
June 2, 2026
Economics, Homelessness
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The National News Desk just released an article that quotes Fix Homelessness Senior Fellow Tom Wolf. Wolf is a formerly homeless recovering Heroin and Fentanyl addict from San Francisco who is now an internationally recognized Recovery Advocate. Read More ›
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homeless encampment along the wooded banks of the Sacramento River
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Michele Steeb
June 2, 2026
Homelessness
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Housing First Is a Disaster. I Saw Sacramento’s Homeless Chaos Firsthand

Michele Steeb
June 2, 2026
Homelessness
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America's homelessness crisis is routinely framed as a housing crisis. It is not. It is a crisis born from the collapse of accountability at every level of the system. Nowhere are the consequences of that collapse more visible than in California — and especially in its capital city, Sacramento. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
May 4, 2026
Homelessness
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Mamdani Ignores New York City Homelessness

Center on Wealth & Poverty
May 4, 2026
Homelessness
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Despite his campaign promise to end homeless encampment sweeps, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has reinstated them. Filmmaker SIX SEVEN KEVIN takes to the streets of New York City, asking business owners, residents, and homeless individuals themselves about how the mayor has been handling the homelessness crisis.

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Marsha Michaelis
April 29, 2026
Homelessness
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Madison Valley Homeless Shelter Brings Crime and Disorder to Neighborhood

Marsha Michaelis
April 29, 2026
Homelessness
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“Madison Valley residents, merchants, and visitors have lost their sense of safety in this community,” said Wendy. “There’s drug-selling and use, people laying or sitting on the sidewalks, overdoses, and a constant stream of people coming and going from the local shelter right into the trees and tent encampments at our public parks.” Read More ›
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Simple silhouette of a church building with a cross on top, conveying the essence of Christian worship
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Michele Steeb
April 17, 2026
Homelessness
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Reintegrating Faith Into the Nation’s Approach to Homelessness

Michele Steeb
April 17, 2026
Homelessness
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For more than a century, America’s response to homelessness was rooted in faith. Churches, rescue missions, Catholic Charities, and the Salvation Army fed the hungry, sheltered the vulnerable, and most importantly, walked alongside them toward restoration. They innately understood a fundamental truth: Homelessness is a human transformation challenge requiring recovery, accountability, and the restoration of purpose. Read More ›
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Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness
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LA’s Skid Row a Painful Monument of “Housing First” Policy

Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness
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Skid Row in Los Angeles stands as a stark example of what happens when ideology overrides reality. Spanning roughly fifty blocks, it is one of the most concentrated homeless zones in the United States, filled with people trapped in addiction and untreated, severe mental illness, often marked by psychosis — a loss of contact with reality. For years, Los Angeles has wrapped its homelessness policies in the language of empathy and housing justice. But Skid Row reveals a harsher truth. Read More ›
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Michele Steeb
March 31, 2026
Homelessness
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Newsom Tries to Shift Blame on Homelessness to Local Government

Michele Steeb
March 31, 2026
Homelessness
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Gavin Newsom stood before the cameras in early March and once again blamed local governments for the state’s spiraling homelessness crisis. “No more excuses,” he thundered, threatening to strip funding from counties he claims are underperforming while promising to redirect “every damn penny” to those “getting things done.” Read More ›