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

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November 8, 2024
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The Winding Path of Homeless Youth

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November 8, 2024
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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

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November 1, 2024
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The Aladdin Factor: Why Troubled Kids Fare Better Than Foster Kids

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November 1, 2024
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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.

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October 25, 2024
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“Homelessness in America”: Stephen Eide’s Eye on Reality

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October 25, 2024
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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 ›

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October 18, 2024
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Inequity and Iniquity in Manhattan Housing

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October 18, 2024
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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
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The Homeless Mascots of “the Anointed”

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October 11, 2024
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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 ›

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October 10, 2024
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“Fentanyl Death Incorporated” Private Screening

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October 10, 2024
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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
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How Politicians Strafed the Cuckoo’s Nest

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September 27, 2024
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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 ›

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September 26, 2024
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New Documentary Reveals Why “Housing First” Is a Failed Policy

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September 26, 2024
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Homeless adult man sitting on the street in the shadow of the building and begging for help and money. Problems of big modern cities. Indifference of people. Social issues.

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September 16, 2024
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Desmond’s “Evicted”: A Condescending View of the Homeless

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September 16, 2024
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August 30, 2024
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Adverse Childhood Experiences: The ACEs You Don’t Want to be Dealt

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August 30, 2024
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ACEs ("adverse childhood experiences") go wild: ACEs such as suffering abuse or neglect, witnessing violence in the home or community, or having a family member attempt or die by suicide, undermine senses of safety and stability. Many U.S. adults experience at least one type of ACE. Most homeless adults hold in their hands at least four ACEs. Read More ›

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August 16, 2024
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Foster Care Children Too Often Become Homeless Adults

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August 16, 2024
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The Safe Families dinner and Rob Henderson memoir I wrote about last month got me thinking more about "the relationship between foster care and homelessness": That's the title of a paper delivered at a 1996 conference hosted by the American Public Welfare Association and based on client files and case data from 21 homeless service organizations located in every region of the United States. Read More ›

little girl with paper family in hands. concept of divorce, custody and child abuse

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August 9, 2024
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Turn into Homelessness

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August 9, 2024
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Would you rather be rich or loved? Many of us might want to be both, but Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, understands what's most important: "For happiness, it's better to be poor and loved than rich and unloved." Read More ›