homelessness

^{Jonathan Choe
December 1, 2024
Homelessness}

Social Media Influencer Nick Shirley Chased While Touring Seattle’s Chinatown

_{Jonathan Choe
December 1, 2024
Homelessness}

Unrecognizable woman hand helping man to stand up

^{Marvin Olasky
November 29, 2024
Homelessness}

Gurteen and Lowell: Nineteenth Century Views on True Charity

_{Marvin Olasky
November 29, 2024
Homelessness}

^{Marvin Olasky
November 22, 2024
Homelessness}

Jerry McAuley’s Nineteenth Century Homelessness Ministry

_{Marvin Olasky
November 22, 2024
Homelessness}

In 1872, McAuley rented a small Water Street room with funds provided by church leaders who admitted the failure of their plan to import middle-class ecclesiastical style into the Rat Pit. McAuley's services were different than anything Water Street, or other mean streets, had seen. He invited in homeless men and others for cheap but hot food, and lots of hot stories. Read More ›

Family disaster, father goes bankrupt, vintage engraving

^{Marvin Olasky
November 15, 2024
Homelessness}

The War on Homelessness 150 Years Ago

_{Marvin Olasky
November 15, 2024
Homelessness}

^{Caitlyn McKenney
November 13, 2024
Economics, Homelessness}

A New Approach for Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

_{Caitlyn McKenney
November 13, 2024
Economics, Homelessness}

In this episode, Caitlyn McKenney is joined by Discovery Senior Fellow and former Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness to discuss a new policy report we coauthored to address homelessness in Seattle. Read the report.

^{Caitlyn McKenney
November 13, 2024}

A New Approach for Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

_{Caitlyn McKenney
November 13, 2024}

a teenage boy who ran away from home, scared, stands alone on the platform,

^{Marvin Olasky
November 8, 2024
Homelessness}

The Winding Path of Homeless Youth

_{Marvin Olasky
November 8, 2024
Homelessness}

In the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Tyler quoted homeless individuals about family influences: "My dad and my mom both drank really hard. . . . My grandfather died from alcohol abuse. . . . My dad's three brothers are all alcoholics and do drugs. . . . my cousins, they're all drug dealers. . . . Dad gets abusive . . ." Read More ›

Magic lamp glowing in the dark with mysterious aura, magic, lamp, dark, glowing, mysterious, aura, genie, wish, mystery

^{Marvin Olasky
November 1, 2024
Homelessness}

The Aladdin Factor: Why Troubled Kids Fare Better Than Foster Kids

_{Marvin Olasky
November 1, 2024
Homelessness}

Aladdin, you may remember from the Disney movie, calls himself a "street rat" and knows how to survive amid homelessness. He is competent. He has "agency," the belief that he can act to improve his circumstances. That mindset is different from what former foster child Rob Henderson describes in his good memoir, Troubled. Read More ›

Male isolated homeless wearing a brown hat sitting on the pedestrian.

^{Marvin Olasky
October 25, 2024
Homelessness}

“Homelessness in America”: Stephen Eide’s Eye on Reality

_{Marvin Olasky
October 25, 2024
Homelessness}

My third and last book to recommend this month is Stephen Eide’s Homelessness in America: The History and Tragedy of an Intractable Social Problem (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
October 18, 2024
Homelessness}

Inequity and Iniquity in Manhattan Housing

_{Marvin Olasky
October 18, 2024
Homelessness}

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 ›