“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 ...

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 ...

AIDS Outreach Center has been awarded $2,500,000 by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to implement a new project called “Housing First” in Tarrant County. AOC learned of the award ...

LOS ANGELES — After a long journey of personal recovery and years volunteering as a substance abuse peer counselor, Thea Golden launched her own recovery home. She and her husband, Tyler, bought a ...

Rachelle Ellison spent 17 years sleeping on the streets of Washington, DC, cycling in and out of jails and hospitals. She finally moved into an apartment in 2008, thanks to a rental voucher with ...

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Well, it shouldn't surprise anyone to learn that there are many politicians on the verge of insanity ...