The Lie Behind “Housing Ends Homelessness
A system built around housing first often ignores the people who repeatedly choose the streets
Truth on the Streets
Three decades working in social services writing on homelessness, addiction and the Homeless Industrial Complex.
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The Homeless Industrial Complex Counts Money, Not Results
The system rewards activity, protects funding, and avoids accountability for whether homeless people actually get better.
Portland’s Sweep Machine
Taxpayers are funding a cycle of cleanup, displacement, and failure while the homeless service system avoids the outcomes that matter.
Dying in Plain Sight
How Passive Outreach, Excuses, and a Lack of Accountability Turn Homelessness Into a Death Sentence
When Survival Matters More Than Ideology
What the political extremes can learn from the homeless.
When Ideology Overrules Common Sense
How radical policies turned homelessness from a moral cause into a political machine.
San Francisco: A Shoplifting Paradise for the Homeless
Radicalized policies that benefit criminals and hurt everyone else
The Homeless Outreach Survival Guide
How to help people in crisis without losing yourself in the mission.
The Compassion Cartel
How the nonprofit left turned helping the homeless into a demand for obedience
Chris Dudley for Governor of Oregon
Oregon needs a governor willing to confront homelessness, addiction, and mental illness like the emergency it is.