mental illness

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Caitlyn McKenney
February 19, 2025
Homelessness
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Homelessness Data Suggests Economic Factors Not a Main Driver

Caitlyn McKenney
February 19, 2025
Homelessness
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Caitlyn McKenney reacts to data shared by the Mayor of Normandy Park WA that shows the role of addiction and mental illness in homelessness. This data should inform policymakers in Washington as they consider a bill that would make it easier to sue cities for restricting public camping. Follow Fix Homelessness at fixhomelessness.org.

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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
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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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Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness
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The Ups and Downs of Recovery at The Forge

Marvin Olasky
April 26, 2024
Homelessness
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The past two months I've written about those making progress at Forge, the Christian shelter I lived at in Joplin, Missouri. But not everyone perseveres. I played disc golf on a sunny day last October with one Forge resident who told me how he had become a devotee of YouTube Satanist channels. For a time, he combined demonic rituals, drug use, and increasingly elaborate drawings of skulls and skeletons. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness
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The Dirty Little Secret About Homelessness Is the Key to Ending It

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 25, 2024
Homelessness
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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 ›
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Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Euthanasia Poisons People and Societies

Wesley J. Smith
March 21, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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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 ›
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Colorful crayons and a symbol of a transgender
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Keri D. Ingraham
January 23, 2024
Education
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Let’s Stop Calling It Gender-Affirming Care

Keri D. Ingraham
January 23, 2024
Education
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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 ›
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Bruce Chapman
May 30, 2023
Homelessness
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To Fix Homelessness, Stop Fixating On Housing

Bruce Chapman
May 30, 2023
Homelessness
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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 ›