Fix Homelessness

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Marvin Olasky
February 14, 2025
Homelessness
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Springs Rescue Mission: Spiritual Recovery Through Love, Not Force

Marvin Olasky
February 14, 2025
Homelessness
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A Springs Rescue Mission (SRM) document declares, "Our faith is why we do what we do, but faith is never required of others to receive basic relief services.…We believe it is God's job to change people, not ours." Old-style missions often thought they could change people by requiring attendance at chapel services. SRM does not have a campus church or any required service. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
January 10, 2025
Homelessness
5

A Fistful of ACEs

Marvin Olasky
January 10, 2025
Homelessness
5
An ideological war about homelessness is raging. Many on the right say substance abuse and mental illness cause homelessness. Many on the left emphasize the cost of housing. Those factors are real, but while living among and interviewing 80 men and women who had suffered long-term homelessness in Missouri, California, and Colorado, I learned more about what both sides underestimate: the impact of ACEs (“adverse childhood experiences”). Read More ›
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Caitlyn McKenney
January 9, 2025
Homelessness
4

Feds Flub Homelessness by Ignoring Addiction

Caitlyn McKenney
January 9, 2025
Homelessness
4
The federal government is hoping you, the public, won't notice that homelessness in America reached an all-time high last year. That was the impression given by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when it quietly released the 2024 annual homelessness report on the Friday between Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year's. Nationwide, 771,480 people were experiencing homelessness in 2024, an 18 percent increase from the year before and the highest number on record. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness
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Homelessness in America Increases to Highest Number on Record

Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness
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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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Marvin Olasky
January 3, 2025
Homelessness
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Boats Against the Current

Marvin Olasky
January 3, 2025
Homelessness
4
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 ›