“Why are you so angry?” a friend asked me during a road trip across the southwest as we talked about the housing debate in the country. I’m still struggling for the answer, but I am frustrated that ...
Despite enjoying decades of bipartisan support, Housing First programs have become a target in the culture wars. Housing First provides housing and wraparound services that are not predicated on ...
For nearly two decades, everyone in Washington believed in Housing First. Housing First holds that homelessness is a housing problem that can be solved—note the word “solved”—by giving the housing to ...
Housing First is the dominant approach to homelessness policy in America. Housing First proponents believe that permanent housing, subsidized by the government, is the only legitimate solution to ...
Last week’s New Yorker featured a 15,000–word exploration of what happens when government gives housing to the homeless. The article profiled a Brooklyn supportive-housing program that provides ...
2023 has seen increasing rates of homelessness in many major U.S. cities according to the Wall Street Journal. Some cities, such as Milwaukee, have experimented with a Housing First model to alleviate ...
U.S. housing prices remain near an all-time high despite a recent slowdown in demand. The only way to truly make housing cheaper is to build a lot more of it in the places people want to live. The Pew ...
Los Angeles County officials warned that a federal executive order ending support for ‘housing first’ policies directly threatens the region's homelessness strategy and could eliminate more than $150 ...
Trident 2 building types in Heng On Estate, Hong Kong. Image © WING via Wikipedia under license CC BY-SA 4.0 While these modern homes remain influential in ...