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Drug addict smoking opium on tin foil
Caitlyn McKenney
January 9, 2025
Homelessness

Feds Flub Homelessness by Ignoring Addiction

Caitlyn McKenney
January 9, 2025
Homelessness
The federal government is hoping you, the public, won't notice that homelessness in America reached an all-time high last year. That was the impression given by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) when it quietly released the 2024 annual homelessness report on the Friday between Christmas, Hannukah, and New Year's. Nationwide, 771,480 people were experiencing homelessness in 2024, an 18 percent increase from the year before and the highest number on record. Read More ›
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Tents set up outdoors on a city street
Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness

Homelessness in America Increases to Highest Number on Record

Discovery Institute
January 6, 2025
Homelessness
Homelessness reached the highest number on record nationwide in 2024 according to a report the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) released on December 27 in a likely attempt to avoid public attention. Dr. Robert Marbut, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and former Federal Homelessness Czar, says, “HUD spent over 3.16 billion on homelessness in 2024 and continues to attribute rising homelessness to unavailable housing and systemic racism, while ignoring the fentanyl epidemic and untreated mental illness.” Read More ›
Silhouette of a man in an old uninhabitable house in front of a window. Depression, loneliness, despair, decline, sadness concept.
Silhouette of a man in an old uninhabitable house in front of a window. Depression, loneliness, despair, decline, sadness concept.
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Robert Marbut
May 29, 2024
Homelessness

Housing First Doesn’t Work

Robert Marbut
May 29, 2024
Homelessness
In a classic attempt to bury embarrassing data, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released its most recent annual homelessness Point-in-Time Count report on a Friday, shortly before the Christmas break, about 11 months after the counting was done. Try as it might, HUD is unable to hide the problem anymore because the increases are so high. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness

SCOTUS Will Hear Arguments in Controversial Homelessness Case that Will Impact Cities Nationwide

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness
As homelessness hits all-time highs across the country, the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments next Monday about whether the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property are constitutional. The case will determine how cities nationwide are allowed to respond to the crisis of homelessness. Read More ›
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Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2023
Homelessness

Leftist Media Distort New Homelessness Study To Support Failed ‘Housing First’ Policies

Caitlyn McKenney
July 10, 2023
Homelessness
Advocates of “Housing First” as the solution for homelessness are praising a new study that supposedly proves their case. The trouble is, the study — conducted by the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) — proves no such thing. Read More ›
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Debra J. Saunders
June 29, 2023
Homelessness

California, the Dream and the Nightmare

Debra J. Saunders
June 29, 2023
Homelessness

“The homeless are just like you and me.” That’s a politically correct assertion that doesn’t quite recognize the reality on the ground, such as the link between self-destructive behavior — most notably, substance abuse — and living on the street with no place to call home. California is home to 12% of America’s population, but 30% of the number “experiencing Read More ›