The parasitic waste of public of public funds notwithstanding, the homeless mortality rate makes the current homeless services system look like a compassionate eugenics program. Time for a change that actually saves lives instead of failed ideology.
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Congrats to the happy couple.
Their next challenge may be the cost regulations add to a new home: $131,734 on the average new build, about 26% of the price.
Someone cut the red tape for these lovebirds.
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I love seeing Secretaries call out Congress for dragging their feet on funding key issues, even better when it’s so bipartisan as this. More pressure on Congress is the only way out of American stagnation.
Update in minutes
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One study found that without the regulatory buildup from 1949 to 2005, U.S. GDP in 2011 would have been about $54 trillion — over 3 times higher than it actually was.
The accumulated shortfall was roughly $39 trillion.
The National Association of Manufacturers found that complying with federal regulations cost an estimated $3 trillion in 2022 alone, equal to 12% of GDP.
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And if we look at affordable housing, federal regulations alone increased a home's cost by over 26%, or around $130k last year. nahb.org/news-and-economics/…
The National Association of Manufacturers found that complying with federal regulations cost an estimated $3 trillion in 2022.
That’s equal to 12% of U.S. GDP.
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→ Start every regulation at zero.
→ Make every rule justify its existence.
→ Repeal outdated rulemaking delegations.
Zero-based regulation. This is the way.
In the six months following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper ruling, which decisively overturned the longstanding Chevron doctrine, federal courts invalidated nearly 84 PERCENT of new rules under review.
Agencies can no longer rely on expansive statutory interpretations to justify ambitious regulatory agendas.
Our @DocTFrost shows state agencies how to respond: repeal obsolete statutes, review every rule from zero, and move durable policy into statute.
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The GEO Group, CoreCivic, and MTC have cornered the market with anti-competitive laws and unaccountable contracts, all while raking in $236 MILLION in state funds per year.
Rather than rewarding success, Florida’s guaranteed minimum occupancy payments to private prison operators incentivize cutting corners and warehousing inmates at the lowest possible cost.
Basing contract terms on measurable outcomes would refocus criminal justice on effective rehabilitation, which would set incarcerated individuals up for success.
Building a continuum of safe, focused care for our most needy citizens is the humane and compassionate response. The street should have never been the answer. Great job, Sir!
Today, we broke ground on the Treasure Island Behavioral Health Building—a facility that will soon serve up to 300 people who need treatment and transitional housing while in recovery.
When completed in 2028, this facility will give patients a place to receive care and access recovery housing. The transitional recovery-housing beds will offer up to two years of stable housing to people who complete the residential program.
Bringing these services together under one roof means someone can begin treatment and move into a stable, supportive place to live as they continue their recovery journey. The facility will join more than 2,900 behavioral health beds operated by the San Francisco Department of Public Health for people with substance use disorder and mental health needs.
Recovery takes time, and people need support along the way.
We're making progress in San Francisco. Fewer people are sleeping on our streets than at any point in the last 15 years, and overdose deaths are down nearly 25 percent this year.
But our work isn't done. We're building a system that connects people to treatment faster and gives them the support they need to rebuild their lives.
When someone is ready to accept help, we need to be ready to provide it.
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🚨 NOW: It's just been exposed that the effort to block a data center on an ABANDONED mall lot in Maryland is LINKED TO CHINESE COMMUNISTS
Imagine that.
"The Party for Socialism and Liberation took notice...that group is reportedly linked to controversial Chinese businessman Neville Roy Singham."
The CHINESE are happy with this move.
Their goal is to take every possible opportunity we get to expand our SI lead and give China an advantage.
We can't let them!
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HUD announcing the largest decrease in homelessness in history, yet housing remained spectacularly expensive in most of the country. teapaw.org/Zeropointzzz/status/21…
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My latest research on homelessness with Chris Sharp and Paul Webster was cited by James Carter @realDailyWire
Thank you for highlighting this critical issue!
Read article 👇
@benshapiro | @InstituteCicero | @Sharp16140 | @Hopestreetco
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San Francisco moved toward treatment first and drug-free housing. Homelessness fell 8%.
Los Angeles stayed with Housing First: housing with no treatment or sobriety requirements. Homelessness rose 1%.
Two California cities. Two approaches. Policy choices have consequences.
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One of the most disturbing findings in my research on Housing First was that in one of the major studies, they counted participants who died as successful housing outcomes for purposes of investor payments. This reflects a fundamental problem with Housing First: we have become so focused on housing retention that we have lost sight of whether people are actually recovering and surviving
The numbers don’t lie.
Housing First failed.
Because of @POTUS’ actions to secure our border and clean up our streets, we are reversing the homelessness crisis.
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My colleague @Sharp16140 and I have a new piece out in the @NRO:
"A program designed to end homelessness should be judged not just by how many people it has served, but how many received appropriate mental illness and addiction treatment, become self-sufficient, and entered the workforce. Without that information, taxpayers and researchers cannot distinguish between programs that work and programs that merely consume resources, making it impossible to identify and replicate success."
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Great insight @Sharp16140 !!
Maryland spent more than $800 MILLION on nonprofit grants in fiscal year 2025, according to state data.
The state needs to focus on a nonprofit’s outcomes, not just its outputs, our chief of staff Chris Sharp told Fox Baltimore.
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No college degree has meant no federal contract job. That’s been the rule even for veterans leaving the military with active security clearances and years of technical experience.
Congress just ended it. The Skills-Based Federal Contracting Act passed the Senate UNANIMOUSLY. Agencies that want to require a degree must justify it in writing.
Millions of Americans can now compete based on what they can actually do.
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Housing First is a failure.
Developer Steven Taylor bought a Cheviot Hills property for $11 million, then sold it to the City of LA for $27 million in taxpayer money for “homeless housing.”
It’s still empty. Still under construction. Zero homeless people housed.
This is the scam. We are ending it.
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It is true that for the first time in decades, reforms are being made, and pragmatic tools are being implemented. One of the big things that I personally appreciate is the push for transparency. The advocates will do everything possible to prevent visibility into their operations and intentionally obfuscate their work and results.
Through a combination of data gathering, reporting, incentives and treatment, we can permanently fix the issue of homelessness in the US.