mental illness

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness}

The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is the Key to Ending It

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness}

The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments about what cities can and cannot do to end homelessness. What everyone agreed on was that homelessness is a difficult problem. I think most people listening to the Supreme Court would agree: it isn’t going to solve homelessness. That is a job for state legislators. So why haven’t they? Why has homelessness gotten worse? Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Most of the media report on euthanasia in the glowing, uncritical language of empowered patients "dying peacefully on their own terms." In contrast, euthanasia abuses and horror stories—an ever-growing list—generally receive little focused media attention and remain outside the notice of people not engaged with the issue. Read More ›

Colorful crayons and a symbol of a transgender

^{Keri D. Ingraham
January 23, 2024
Education}

Let’s Stop Calling It Gender-Affirming Care

_{Keri D. Ingraham
January 23, 2024
Education}

Twenty-two states have passed laws restricting in varying degrees the practice of the grossly inaccurately termed “gender-affirming care” for minors. The majority of those states did so in 2023. Additional bills aimed at protecting children from irreversible physical harm are being put forward this legislative cycle in states with Republican majority legislatures. Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
May 30, 2023
Homelessness}

To Fix Homelessness, Stop Fixating On Housing

_{Bruce Chapman
May 30, 2023
Homelessness}

Homelessness affects cities across the country, but it’s not just a local issue, though media cover it that way. Nor is homelessness mainly about housing; rather, it’s largely about untreated mental illness and drug addiction. Read More ›

^{Robert Marbut and Marvin Olasky
February 20, 2023
Homelessness}

Obama Promised to End Homelessness This Year

_{Robert Marbut and Marvin Olasky
February 20, 2023
Homelessness}

Policy makers act as if it’s simply an issue of people not having houses, rather than a complex problem often rooted in mental illness and substance-abuse disorders. Read More ›

Wooden toy house model in man's hand on yellow background front view

^{Marvin Olasky
October 21, 2022
Homelessness}

Stephanie Creighton

_{Marvin Olasky
October 21, 2022
Homelessness}

With Creighton as with others, it may be that mental illness doesn’t go away, but at Eden Village it does not rule her. Read More ›

Hands of Homelessness Poor man holding the paper house hope to have family home and warm home

^{Discovery Institute
October 12, 2022
Homelessness}

Discovery Institute Releases National Report on Homelessness

_{Discovery Institute
October 12, 2022
Homelessness}

The problems linked to homelessness, including substance abuse, mental illness, and crime, are increasing in America despite untold sums of government money spent to address this complex problem. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
September 16, 2022
Homelessness}

Good Intentions, Horrible Results

_{Marvin Olasky
September 16, 2022
Homelessness}

Which came first, medical panaceas (that turned out not to be so) or money incentives? Read More ›

^{Bruce Chapman
September 6, 2022
Homelessness}

Spokane Shows the Failures of ‘Housing First’

_{Bruce Chapman
September 6, 2022
Homelessness}

The national policy of “Housing First” has been a disappointing failure at reducing homelessness overall. Housing should be only one part of a solution that includes treatment of mental illness and drug addiction. Read More ›

Desperate lonely man seated against the wall in the city street

^{Marvin Olasky
August 18, 2022
Economics}

Homeless Encampments and Mental Illness

_{Marvin Olasky
August 18, 2022
Economics}

Fifty-one years ago I bicycled from Boston to Oregon. I was a Marxist then and looking for evidence of the American empire falling apart, but during the whole ten weeks on the road I didn’t see the one tourist attraction that would have delighted my propagandistic self: homeless encampments. Now every city seems to have them. Read More ›