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A young American farmer sheep in a pen during sunset
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Marvin Olasky
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May 24, 2024
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Go West, Children: How Charles Brace Placed Orphans in Families

Marvin Olasky
May 24, 2024
Homelessness
Last week I wrote about how Charles Brace set up homes for homeless children but did not see institutionalization as ideal. He wondered whether it was possible to find thousands of families willing to take responsibility for the children of the streets. The problem seemed enormous. Brace wrote: "How were places to be found? . . . And when the children were placed, how were their interests to be watched over, and acts of oppression or hard dealing prevented or punished?" Read More ›
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A pioneer family on the frontier, amidst a vast prairie, setting up their homestead, gazes towards a hopeful horizon.
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Marvin Olasky
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May 10, 2024
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Homelessness
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Go West, Young Man (and Woman)

Marvin Olasky
May 10, 2024
Homelessness
We often think westward migration was for males only. In 1862 the Homestead Act allowed land claims from “any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years.” Women, including those widowed by the Civil War, made one third of all homestead claims. Some men and women who made it to the Midwest and went no further became homeless. Read More ›
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Jonathan Choe
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April 26, 2024
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Community Impact, Homelessness, Street Report
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Burien Small Business Closes Due to Homelessness Crisis

Jonathan Choe
April 26, 2024
Community Impact, Homelessness, Street Report
Downtown Burien business Iris & Peony is exiting the city because of the unending homeless drug crisis playing out on the streets everyday. Owner Robyn Desimone says she can no longer make a living being a daily victim of vandalism and other crimes. Read More ›
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Supreme Court of the United States
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April 18, 2024
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SCOTUS Will Hear Arguments in Controversial Homelessness Case that Will Impact Cities Nationwide

Center on Wealth & Poverty
April 18, 2024
Homelessness, News
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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Robert Marbut
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May 23, 2022
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Robert Marbut on America’s Homelessness Crisis, Strategies for Uplifting the Homeless, and Effective Government Policies

Robert Marbut
May 23, 2022
Mental Illness
Homelessness has reached crisis proportions. Few issues of human dignity are as heart wrenching as the wretched scenes in our most prosperous cities—San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle—where one can drive down main thoroughfares and be confronted with tent encampments lining streets that provide scant shelter for thousands of destitute people. Read More ›