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The Greatest Predictor of Homelessness

The greatest predictor of homelessness is not addiction or mental illness. It is Adverse Childhood Experiences, the developmental trauma that can predict all three.

April 13, 20263 min read

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April 20264 min

Housing FIrst Done Right & Wrong

The evidence-based model that ends chronic homelessness, the ways we've gotten it wrong, and why fidelity is the only path forward.

April 20266 min

We Don't Need to Build Our Way Out of Homelessness

Is the solution to homelessness really building more buildings? We explore why the key to ending the crisis might lie in utilizing the vacant housing right in front of us.

April 202612 min

Shelters Address Symptoms. Housing Solves Problems.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's second executive order calls for the creation of 1,000 new shelter beds by June, and we need to slow down and really think about what that means.