Homelessness

Seattle overregulation-7
Caitlyn McKenney
October 23, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5

Washington Law Unfairly Keeps Prior Evictions Off Tenant Screenings

Caitlyn McKenney
October 23, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5

When it comes to tenant’s rights laws, good intentions don’t always lead to good or fair outcomes. One example is a Washington State law that allows tenants to keep their eviction from being disclosed to future housing providers. The state allows an order of limited dissemination (OLD) to be filed for eviction cases to prevent housing providers from denying tenants Read More ›

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Typical buildings in Soho in New York
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Marvin Olasky
October 18, 2024
Homelessness
5

Inequity and Iniquity in Manhattan Housing

Marvin Olasky
October 18, 2024
Homelessness
5
In 2015, the May 15 cover of New York Magazine ran this headline: “New York Real Estate Is the New Swiss Bank Account: Foreigners are flooding the market to stash, hide, and sometimes launder their money.” That intrigued me, because I had done some research into Manhattan condos selling for $20 million and up. Read More ›
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Young depressed homeless girl or woman standing alone under the bridge on the street on the cold weather feeling anxious abandoned and freezing selective focus
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Marvin Olasky
October 11, 2024
Homelessness
4

The Homeless Mascots of “the Anointed”

Marvin Olasky
October 11, 2024
Homelessness
4
Sowell wrote that homeless individuals often became "mascots of the anointed." Sleeping-on-the-streets miseries "enable the anointed to score points against a benighted society." Sowell wrote about requests that homeless advocates receive: "We need a witness for a hearing. Can you get us a homeless family: mother, father — father out of work in the past four months from an industrial plant — white?" Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 10, 2024
Discovery Institute, Economics, Homelessness
2

“Fentanyl Death Incorporated” Private Screening

Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 10, 2024
Discovery Institute, Economics, Homelessness
2
Discovery Insitute is pleased to invite our supporters and friends to a private screening of a significant new documentary, Fentanyl Death Incorporated. The event will feature Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, fentanyl expert, and former White House Policy Advisor, Dr. Robert Marbut, who served as Senior Producer. Read More ›
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Woman reading book at evening at home close up
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Marvin Olasky
October 4, 2024
Homelessness
5

Elliott’s “Invisible Child”: A Model of Narrative Non-Fiction

Marvin Olasky
October 4, 2024
Homelessness
5
Sixty-six books have won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction since that award began in 1962. Two of the books — sociologist Matthew Desmond's Evicted (the 2017 winner) and journalist Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child (2022 Pulitzer) — portray people in and out of homelessness. I criticized Desmond's work last month: He communicated an unmodulated despair. Last week, though, I recommended E. Fuller Torrey's American Psychosis, and this week I want to recommend Invisible Child's nuanced hopefulness. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 3, 2024
Homelessness
3

New Fentanyl Documentary Produced by Senior Fellow Robert Marbut Coming January 2025

Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 3, 2024
Homelessness
3
Discovery Institute's Fix Homelessness initiative is proud to partner with filmmaker Stephen Wollwerth in the production of this documentary that explores the fentanyl crisis in depth. The documentary is produced by Senior Fellow Dr. Robert G. Marbut, Jr., the former Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness under both the Trump and Biden administrations. Read More ›
Seattle school year ban
Caitlyn McKenney
October 2, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5

As Affordable Housing Crumbles, Reconsider School Year Eviction Bans

Caitlyn McKenney
October 2, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5
In 2021, the City of Seattle instituted a school year eviction moratorium. Households with a child under age 18 on the lease cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent from the start of the school year in September through the end in June. The legislation may have been crafted in goodwill — to keep children housed and their lives stable — but the outcomes have been disastrous. Read More ›
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Low angle view of lonely patient in full length in modern hospital waiting lobby room walking impatiently as he waits for good or bad news from his doctor
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Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
5

How Politicians Strafed the Cuckoo’s Nest

Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
5
State hospitals closed. Tens of thousands among the insane hit the streets. Liberal journalists began focusing on homelessness in the 1980s in part because they could blame the Reagan administration for it, but also because about 650,000 individuals who would have been hospitalized thirty years earlier were on the streets. Read More ›