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Light still shine even in the moment of despair , a girl facing down alone in abandoned building in Low key photo

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October 20, 2025
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Housing Without Healing Won’t Cure Homelessness

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October 20, 2025
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Homelessness in California — and across America — has reached a breaking point. The crisis has climbed to the highest level ever recorded, even as billions more are poured into housing subsidies and bureaucratic programs that promise compassion but deliver only despair. No one bears the consequences more cruelly than the homeless themselves. Their death rate has soared by 77% in the country’s largest urban areas, a devastating indictment of a system that prioritizes housing units over human healing. Read More ›

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October 13, 2025
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New Report: How Extremists Infiltrated Homelessness Advocacy in America

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October 13, 2025
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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Capital Research Center (CRC) released a new report in cooperation with Discovery Institute exploring how extremist ideological movements are exploiting America's homelessness crisis, which can include hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people on any given night. Read More ›

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October 8, 2025
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Jonathan Choe Presents Infiltration of Homelessness Industry Report to President

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Diverse group of activists people holding posters and banners antiwar protesting against war and violence in the world.

^{Bruce Chapman
October 7, 2025
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Report To Reveal Infiltration of Homelessness Movement

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October 7, 2025
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Last spring we went to the Capital Research Center (CRC) in Washington, D.C., where a fine report had just been issued on the links between radical Islamists and campus demonstrations on Gaza. We explained what we were seeing and asked the CRC head, Scott Walker, if his group could chart the way that the homelessness services programs were being reshaped as a united base for far-left advocacy on a whole range of issues. Read More ›

^{Marsha Michaelis
October 1, 2025
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On Homelessness, HUD Is Right to Move Away from Failed “Housing First” Policies

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October 1, 2025
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In a memorable scene from “Casablanca,” actor Claude Rains plays a corrupt police chief ordered by the Germans to shut down a popular nightclub after patrons indulge in a disfavored patriotic song. “But I have no excuse to close it!” protests Rains. “Find one,” is the curt reply. Read More ›

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September 15, 2025
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Awful: Kilmeade Says “Just Kill” Mentally Ill Homeless Who Refuse Help

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September 15, 2025
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Homelessness is a crisis in our major cities. But we have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. That is why I was appalled that — in a recent discussion about the atrocious murder of Iryna Zarutska by a mentally ill homeless man — Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade said that if the mentally ill homeless don’t accept hospitalization, they should be, well, killed. Read More ›

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September 10, 2025
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Little Saigon Left Behind: Crime, Chaos, and Political Silence

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September 10, 2025
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Jonathan Choe continues to monitor the dire situation of Seattle’s Little Saigon, this time with independent journalist Nick Shirley‬. The two discover that the black market of drugs and stolen goods goes unchecked, drug addicts are passed over on the street with rotting flesh, parks intended for community members and families are overrun by open-air drug use, and city officials Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Michele Steeb
August 12, 2025
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Michele Steeb Tells NTD News Trump Is Not Criminalizing the Homeless

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August 12, 2025
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^{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Steven J. Buri
July 31, 2025
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Steve Buri Thanks President Trump for Ending Housing First

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July 31, 2025
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Discovery Institute President Steve Buri thanks President Donald Trump for his Executive Order ending the failed Housing First and harm reduction policies. He also highlights the important role Discovery Institute played with its Fix Homelessness project's street-level reporting and our policy research. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
July 28, 2025
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Robert Marbut Defends Trump’s Homeless Executive Order on Chris Cuomo’s Show

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July 28, 2025
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Dr. Robert Marbut appeared on NewsNation with host Chris Cuomo to discuss President Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” Executive Order. Dr. Marbut explains how this Order will serve the street-level homeless community, how harm reduction and Housing First failed, and the importance of focusing on treatment and recovery.

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty and Robert Marbut
July 25, 2025
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Robert Marbut Talks New Homelessness Executive Order on News Nation

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July 25, 2025
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Robert Marbut appeared on News Nation this afternoon to discuss President Trump’s new “ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA’S STREETS” Executive Order. Marbut highlights the importance of funding drug addiction treatment, bunks the myth that the homeless will be thrown into jail, and discusses the reasons behind involuntary commitment.

Urban homeless encampment with a dilapidated blue tent surrounded by trash on a sidewalk.

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July 24, 2025
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Discovery Institute Applauds President Trump’s Bold Action on Homelessness

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July 24, 2025
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The scholars and Fellows of Discovery Institute's innovative Fix Homelessness initiative applaud President Trump for signing Executive Order, "ENDING CRIME AND DISORDER ON AMERICA'S STREETS," a decisive step toward dramatically reducing homelessness across the United States. Read More ›