Municipalities should adopt a more assertive approach to street homelessness.
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness pushed the disastrous Housing First policy on states and ignored mounting evidence of its failure.
Florida, Georgia, and Utah lead the way in breaking with HUD’s failed model on homelessness policy.
Rather than pushing dangerous policies, reformers should focus their efforts on making prisons better at “correcting” individuals.
Federal homeless policy is out of step with reality—but voters and state policymakers are pushing back.
A lesson from Europe
Private correctional facilities aren’t the problem with the criminal-justice system—and they could even help improve it.
Rewarding prisons that help departing inmates secure housing before release could reduce homelessness.
Criminal-justice reformers should stop deluding themselves and the public that “mass decarceration” will be anything other than a bloodbath.
Lawmakers should consider more constructive policies to improve policing while maintaining public safety.
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