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The Homelessness Crisis – Second Thought
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This time we’re taking a look at the rhetoric surrounding the homelessness epidemic — from comedians "joking" that the homeless should be put in concentration camps, to Fox News hosts saying we should literally k*ll them. What’s going on here? When did this inhumane thinking start, and does the data support all the "dangerous homeless addict" fear mongering? Let’s investigate.

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Citations and Further Reading:

There Is No Place for Us
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871/there-is-no-place-for-us-by-brian-goldstone/

Clips
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1966878449290649676
https://x.com/BenBankas/status/1965127535026733086

State of Homelessness statistics

State of Homelessness: 2025 Edition

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/opinion/crisis-working-homeless.html

Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2110me5g4o
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

Grants Pass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson

Homelessness myths
https://web.archive.org/web/20250914000345/https://www.usich.gov/guidance-reports-data/data-trends#:~:text=Myth%3A%C2%A0Most,do%20not%20cause%20homelessness
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/unhoused-people-perceived-dangerous/story?id=103751928

Reagan

The Housing Hunger Games

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1984/07/29/reagan-welfare-cuts-found-to-worsen-families-poverty/077278f9-a875-4791-9c34-d1cf3cd148b5/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4364434/pdf/milq0093-0139.pdf

NYT Poll
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/03/us/do-more-for-homeless-say-half-of-thoses-polled.html#:~:text=There%20was%20also%20no%20consensus,Concentrations%20in%20West%20and%20North

Map
https://nlihc.org/gap

Blackstone
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/06/16/2248347/0/en/Blackstone-and-Starwood-Capital-Group-Complete-Acquisition-of-Extended-Stay-America.html

Conservatives don’t care
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/08/politics/trump-crackdown-on-homeless-washington-dc#:~:text=But%20nearly%20a%20month%20later%2C%20homeless%20advocates%20say%20the%20federal%20government%20has%20still%20not%20provided%20any%20shelters%20or%20mental%20health%20services.%20Only%20the%20city%20government%20has%20continued%20to%20provide%20those%20services%2C%20they%20say

Housing First

https://nlihc.org/resource/new-study-finds-providing-people-experiencing-homelessness-housing-has-positive-impacts
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/politics/federal-policy-on-homelessness-becomes-new-target-of-the-right.html

Criminalization of homelessness
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/joe-lonsdale-cicero-trump-leo-homeless-crime-1235078795/
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kentucky-crime-bill/

Cicero Institute: The Shadow Lobby Fueling Mass Incarceration of Homeless People

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