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April 18, 2024
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Homelessness
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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
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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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Marvin Olasky
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October 28, 2022
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Housing
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Limits of “Housing First”

Marvin Olasky
October 28, 2022
Housing
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Homelessness is complicated. Housing costs are a problem in some big coastal cities and a few others. Local governments should reduce burdensome regulations and building fees to encourage affordable housing construction. But addiction and mental illness are larger problems for many who are “sleeping rough.” Read More ›
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Sunny view of some homeless tent in front of the Union Station
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Debra J. Saunders
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October 13, 2022
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Governance
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Uncle Sam Enabling Homelessness, Not Ending It

Debra J. Saunders
October 13, 2022
Governance
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How Congress Can Reform Government’s Misguided Homelessness Policies report exposes the futility of current federal “Housing First” policies, now embraced by President Joe Biden’s administration. Read More ›
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Robert Marbut
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May 23, 2022
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Mental Illness
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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
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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 ›
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Poor tired depressed hungry homeless man holding
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Robert Marbut
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December 14, 2021
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Governance
Housing
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Watch: Robert Marbut Talks About Homelessness with Dr. Drew

Robert Marbut and Caitlin Cory
December 14, 2021
Governance, Housing, What Works
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Robert Marbut, the former Executive Director of the USICH, sat down with Dr. Drew to talk about homelessness (especially as it is experienced in California) and how the Trump administration was planning to tackle it. With the inauguration of President Joe Biden this year, the federal policy has returned to Housing First but the interview remains relevant. Read More ›