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Christopher Rufo
December 15, 2020
Economics

Homelessness

Christopher Rufo
December 15, 2020
Economics
This short film will help you understand the homeless and poverty crisis from the inside-out — what drives it, what perpetuates it, and why nothing seems to help. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
September 16, 2020
Economics

Christopher Rufo with Reihan Salan for Manhattan Institute’s Young Leaders Circle

Christopher Rufo
September 16, 2020
Economics
On September 16th, Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam interviewed City Journal contributing editor Christopher Rufo who has established himself as an authority on the negative consequences of sometimes well-intentioned progressive policies designed to address homelessness, opioid addiction, incarceration, and other urban problems. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
August 13, 2020
Economics

Covid-19 Exposes the Roots of the Homeless Crisis in our Cities

Christopher Rufo
August 13, 2020
Economics
“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.” Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics

The Harm in “Harm Reduction”

Christopher Rufo
July 16, 2020
Economics
As cities in the United States, including San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia, and Seattle, consider opening their own safe-injection sites, they should understand the full consequences of these practices. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
May 6, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics

The Human Face of Poverty

Discovery Institute
May 6, 2020
Discovery Institute, Economics
Please join us Thursday, May 28 at 12pm PST for an online lecture featuring Chris Arnade, author of Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America. Discovery Institute's Christopher F. Rufo will interview Arnade about the dynamics of American poverty, his long road trips through America's "forgotten cities," and the political dimension of anti-poverty policy. Read More ›
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Photo of Golden Gate Bridge in background, large chain in front
Photo by Keith Wong at Unsplash
Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Economics

Chaos by the Bay

Christopher Rufo
April 14, 2020
Economics
The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max — lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics

Plot Twist

Christopher Rufo
March 10, 2020
Economics
Homelessness has been circumscribed around a set of premises acceptable to progressive opinion. The homeless were thrown onto the streets, we’re told, because of rising rents, heartless landlords, and a lack of economic opportunity. But new data are undermining this narrative. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics

Seattle Is Socialism’s Laboratory, and It’s Not Pretty

Christopher Rufo
February 27, 2020
Economics
Democratic socialists are in the middle of a hostile takeover of the Democratic Party. Led by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign and the “squad” of newly elected congresswomen, the hard-left coalition has laid out an ambitious agenda to transform the United States into a democratic socialist nation and Seattle has effectively become the nation’s laboratory for socialist policies. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics

An Addiction Crisis Disguised as a Housing Crisis

Christopher Rufo
June 13, 2019
Economics
By latest count, some 109,089 men and women are sleeping on the streets of major cities in California, Oregon, and Washington. The homelessness crisis in these cities has generated headlines and speculation about “root causes.” Progressive political activists allege that tech companies have inflated housing costs and forced middle-class people onto the streets. Declaring that “no two people living on Skid Row . . . ended up there for the same reasons,” Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, for his part, blames a housing shortage, stagnant wages, cuts to mental health services, domestic and sexual abuse, shortcomings in criminal justice, and a lack of resources for veterans. These factors may all have played a role, but the most pervasive cause of West Coast homelessness is clear: heroin, fentanyl, and synthetic opioids. Read More ›