GOP-Run Indiana City Considers Democrat-Run, California-Style Homeless Center
Hundreds of billions spent nationwide on homeless services have only resulted in more homelessness. Councilman Russ Jehl says Fort Wayne should try a third option besides doing nothing or enabling addicts.
The industrial homelessness complex, in many cases, has used advocacy for the homeless as a front for all kinds of radical causes.
The problem with the Housing First approach to homelessness is that it's a one-size-fits-all policy that ignores human nature.
Proposition One garnered a nail-bitingly close victory, but the slim margin signals the tide is turning against a failed housing policy.
Following the release of a UCSF homelessness study, the media have heralded free housing as the solution. But the data suggests otherwise.
The homeless are often both mentally ill and addicted. Yet the government persists in treating homelessness as almost entirely a housing issue.
Debate over the term 'homeless' versus 'houseless' doesn't provide a real solution, and neither does just offering a place to live.