homelessness

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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
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Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
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How Politicians Strafed the Cuckoo’s Nest

Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
5
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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Marvin Olasky
August 30, 2024
Homelessness
5

Adverse Childhood Experiences: The ACEs You Don’t Want to be Dealt

Marvin Olasky
August 30, 2024
Homelessness
5
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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Little waggish kid in an empty room
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Marvin Olasky
August 16, 2024
Homelessness
4

Foster Care Children Too Often Become Homeless Adults

Marvin Olasky
August 16, 2024
Homelessness
4
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 ›
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little girl with paper family in hands. concept of divorce, custody and child abuse
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Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
4

How Adverse Childhood Experiences Turn into Homelessness

Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
4
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 ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
July 18, 2024
Homelessness
1

Robert Marbut Discusses Grants Pass v. Johnson on [un]Divided with Brandi Kruse

Center on Wealth & Poverty
July 18, 2024
Homelessness
1
On unDivided, hosted by Brandi Kruse, Robert Marbut discusses what Grants Pass v. Johnson means for cities and their homeless populations, what cities like Seattle and San Francisco need to do, and the importance of investing in treatment for mental illness and drug addiction, and the reality behind Housing First. Read More ›
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Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2024
Homelessness
1

Public Camping Bans: Not a Cure-All, Not Cruel

Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2024
Homelessness
1
We’ve accepted the dangerous conditions of public camping as a fact of urban life. It’s time to change the status quo, and the Supreme Court’s homelessness ruling gives us the chance to do that. Camping bans are not a cure-all or a cruelty. Here’s why. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
June 28, 2024
Homelessness
2

U.S. Supreme Court Backs Local Communities in Nation’s Homeless Response

Discovery Institute
June 28, 2024
Homelessness
2
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Grants Pass v. Johnson that city ordinances against public camping do not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment. The Court’s decision is a win not only for the small Oregon city of Grants Pass, but also for dozens of Western localities that had been hamstrung by the Ninth Circuit as they grapple with record high rates of homelessness. Read More ›