The Homelessness Crisis

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/bo...

Clips
https://x.com/atrupar/status/19668784...
https://x.com/BenBankas/status/196512...
   • Trump on 'getting rid of the slums': Polic...  
   • Agenda47:  Ending the Nightmare of the Hom...  

State of Homelessness statistics
https://endhomelessness.org/state-of-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/op...

Trump
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...

Grants Pass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...

Homelessness myths
https://web.archive.org/web/202509140...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/unhouse...

Reagan
https://theintercept.com/2025/08/29/b...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...

NYT Poll
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/03/us...

Map
https://nlihc.org/gap

Blackstone
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-re...

Conservatives don’t care
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/08/po...

Housing First
   • How Finland Ended Homelessness  
https://nlihc.org/resource/new-study-...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us...

Criminalization of homelessness
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics...
https://www.thenation.com/article/soc...
https://invisiblepeople.tv/cicero-ins...

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