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How Christian Homeless Shelters Are Changing

_{Marvin Olasky
January 9, 2024}

Over the years I visited other Christian shelters in California and Colorado, Texas and Missouri, and Illinois and Pennsylvania, and saw some fairly low common denominators.

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Going Deeper

_{Marvin Olasky
January 5, 2024}

The homes were all of different colors—and trauma colored each of my new neighbors’ stories, as I would find out.

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Understanding the Homeless Debate

_{Marvin Olasky
June 2, 2023}

This column begins year two of my weekly writing specifically about homelessness: 52 down, 52 to go, and then it’s time to turn columns into a book. People new to the homelessness debate often find the recommendations of various groups confusing. So here’s a simplified, maybe over-simplified … » Go

Hearing Voices

_{Marvin Olasky
December 16, 2022}

Julius Caesar began his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars with a sentence that Latin students once memorized: Translated literally into English, it reads, “Gaul is a whole divided into three parts.” When delving into homelessness causes, it’s useful to keep in mind that homelessness is both a … » Go

Jeremiah Pruitt

_{Marvin Olasky
November 4, 2022}

Here’s one good criticism of a book about poverty-fighting programs I wrote 23 years ago, Compassionate Conservatism: “Olasky tells about the people who have established these programs. We do not hear the stories of people who have been helped by them.” Last month I wrote about two … » Go

Stephanie Creighton

_{Marvin Olasky
October 21, 2022}

“Tiny home” villages are going up around the United States. They’re touted as solutions for homeless men and women, but a Sept. 17 Los Angeles Times article had this headline about two California villages: “The report card is mixed.”

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