Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
If housing is the solution to homelessness, why hasn't a decade of Housing First policies fixed it? Senior Fellow Michele Steeb explains what housing alone doesn't solve — addiction, mental illness, and other gaps in life skills and self-sufficiency. Housing First erected roadblocks to solutions that treat those underlying causes of homelessness.
The federal government has just begun to change course. To help local jurisdictions navigate and leverage these changes, our team has released a short, easy-to-read policy brief.
Check out the policy brief here: fixhomelessness.org/2026/hud-re-issues-new-homeless-grant-criteria-freeing-cities-to-ditch-housing-first-pursue-real-solutions
*Thumbnail image courtesy of Kevin Dahlgren. Used with permission.
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Discovery Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy think tank promoting thoughtful analysis and effective action on local, regional, national and international issues.
The mission of Discovery Institute is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation.
The Institute is home to an inter-disciplinary community of scholars and policy advocates dedicated to the reinvigoration of traditional Western principles and institutions and the worldview from which they issued. Discovery Institute has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West. For more information about the mission and program of Discovery Institute visit: discovery.org/about
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If housing is the solution to homelessness, why hasn't a decade of Housing First policies fixed it? Senior Fellow Michele Steeb explains what housing alone doesn't solve — addiction, mental illness, and other gaps in life skills and self-sufficiency. Housing First erected roadblocks to solutions that treat those underlying causes of homelessness.
The federal government has just begun to change course. To help local jurisdictions navigate and leverage these changes, our team has released a short, easy-to-read policy brief.
Check out the policy brief here: fixhomelessness.org/2026/hud-re-issues-new-homeless-grant-criteria-freeing-cities-to-ditch-housing-first-pursue-real-solutions
*Thumbnail image courtesy of Kevin Dahlgren. Used with permission.
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Discovery Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, public policy think tank promoting thoughtful analysis and effective action on local, regional, national and international issues.
The mission of Discovery Institute is to advance a culture of purpose, creativity and innovation.
The Institute is home to an inter-disciplinary community of scholars and policy advocates dedicated to the reinvigoration of traditional Western principles and institutions and the worldview from which they issued. Discovery Institute has a special concern for the role that science and technology play in our culture and how they can advance free markets, illuminate public policy and support the theistic foundations of the West. For more information about the mission and program of Discovery Institute visit: discovery.org/about
Follow Discovery Institute:
X: @DiscoveryInst1
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