The USICH sets lofty goals for reducing homelessness by doubling down on the failed Housing First program—yet the USICH themselves have admitted that though “funding for homelessness assistance has increased every year,” the unsheltered population has grown by a staggering 20.5% nationally.
No across-the-board solutions exist for resolving homelessness. But, more granular data – specific to a community’s population vs. an entire county – can help identify common causes. TCI’s James Whitford discusses how a recent state bill can help do just that.
Housing First is intended to quickly connect people experiencing homelessness to permanent housing “without preconditions such as sobriety, treatment or service participation requirements.” Yet, it has the unfortunate result of trapping people in a cycle of dependency.
In a recent conversation, Jennifer Johnson, a former lawyer turned child care cooperative director, told me, “Many of the women (she) represented were good mothers. They loved and desired to parent their children. However, they just couldn’t figure out how to work and pay for child care.” Jennifer’s story represents similar conversations that I have had with pregnancy care center directors, child care centers and nonprofit leaders.
Will student loan forgiveness help struggling Americans or put them one more step behind? TCI’s Savannah Aleckson explores the possibilities in her recent article, originally published in The American Spectator.
Is expanding food stamps benefits to include restaurants a kindness or, as FDR put it, “a subtle destroyer of the human spirit”? TCI’s James Whitford explains how one state’s recent legislation doing just that is a disservice to those in need.
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