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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 ›

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

^{Marvin Olasky
October 11, 2024
Homelessness}

The Homeless Mascots of “the Anointed”

_{Marvin Olasky
October 11, 2024
Homelessness}

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 ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 10, 2024
Discovery Institute, Economics, Homelessness}

“Fentanyl Death Incorporated” Private Screening

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 10, 2024
Discovery Institute, Economics, Homelessness}

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 ›

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

^{Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness}

How Politicians Strafed the Cuckoo’s Nest

_{Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness}

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 ›