Covid-19 Exposes the Roots of the Homeless Crisis in our Cities
“The coronavirus has started to reveal some long standing truths about homelessness, about addiction, and about mental illness,” explains Christopher Rufo director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. “For the past decade, policy makers have largely avoided these questions, or, largely been in denial about the causes of homelessness.” As people continue to socially distance and remain in their homes, homelessness runs rampant on the streets. Open air drug markets are flourishing, mental illness rages, and blatant public drug use has soared. As these problems escalate and as some cities try and fail to give the homeless housing, public officials are being forced to acknowledge that homelessness cannot be boiled down to a lack of housing alone; instead, Read More ›
