📚 Answers Behind the Red Door: Battling the #Homeless Epidemic🖊@nypost @DCExaminer @USAT @FDRLST @washingtonpost @Newsweek 🏛 13-year homeless org CEO speaker
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My new book:
Answers Behind The Red Door
Battling the Homeless Epidemic
Get it here:
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#HomelessNotHelpless
For a clear, unfiltered understanding of our nation’s homelessness crisis— what’s behind it, what’s failed, and how we are finally turning a corner—don’t miss this conversation.
For the first time in over a decade, our nation will begin offering the homeless comprehensive support rooted in recovery, restoration, and accountability, rather than failed ideology and wishful thinking.
Thank you, @FurthermorePod!
Another example of the simple fact that over the last 12 yrs, our homeless system has been devoid of accountability at every level. When there’s no accountability, there’s no accountability!
Homeless service provider's CEO placed on leave, law firm to probe property valuations latimes.com/california/story…
Fantastic move for Utah, @SpencerJCox! Congratulations, @Clancy4Utah! sltrib.com/news/politics/202…
The truth laid bare in my Op-Ed below: Taxpayers, donors, & the homeless have been betrayed by "advocacy organizations" % elite philanthropic foundations that claim to be helping.
Our 1st clue was the numbers: we’ve poured 300% more public funding into homelessness programs over the last 12 years—under the federal Housing First mandate—yet homelessness rose by nearly 35%.
Our 2nd clue came from the streets themselves: thousands say they are either told help is coming but it never arrives, or they’re offered drug paraphernalia but not a path to recovery and self-reliance.
The Homeless Industrial Complex has been exposed in The Infiltrated report. We must now ensure that every elected official has this report in hand— and that, as voters, we hold electeds accountable to tying funding to real reductions in homelessness, not to padding the salaries of people who pretend to care.
The truth laid bare in my Op-Ed below: Taxpayers, donors, & the homeless have been betrayed by so-called advocacy organizations & elite philanthropic foundations that claim to be helping.
Our 1st clue should have been the #'s: we’ve poured 300% more public funding into homelessness programs over the last 12 years—under the federal Housing First mandate—yet homelessness rose by nearly 35%.
Our 2nd clue came from the streets themselves: thousands say they are either told help is coming but it never arrives, or they’re offered drug paraphernalia but not a path to recovery/self-reliance.
The Homeless Industrial Complex has been exposed. We must now ensure that every elected official has this report in hand— & that, as voters, we hold them accountable to tying funding to real reductions in homelessness, not to padding the salaries of people who pretend to care.
Unfortunately, this is the case with so many out there with whom we are able to connect.
The Complex’s all-out resistance to the President’s recent EO reveals how firmly entrenched it is— and how threatened it feels by the prospect of being held accountable for results such as “reductions in homelessness.”
"NYC has more homeless students than Dallas has students."
For over a decade, I’ve been sounding the alarm bell that families are the fastest-growing segment of U.S. homeless pop, thx to a 2011 decision by @HUDgov.
@HUDgov quietly amended the federal definition of homelessness, calling “doubled-up” families "not homeless enough" and rendering them ineligible for aid.
The consequences are increasingly devastating:
• 24–40% of homeless children require clinical mental health care—2–4× higher than other low-income kids.
• Homeless students score 20 points lower in English and math than non-homeless peers.
• They face twice the rate of learning disabilities and three times the rate of emotional or behavioral problems.
I am devastated to report that we are watching, in real time, the next generation of chronic homelessness take shape.
nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-new…
In the midst of CA's homelessness crisis, where so many battle addiction and mental illness under unimaginable conditions, stories like Michelle's should remind us of the profound humanity and resilience in every person.
From childhood wounds to heroin's grip, Michelle found her way back— not through a roof alone, but through compassionate structure, accountability, and mentors who believed in her redemption. She rebuilt her life: seven years sober, a loving family, a home filled with joy.
Yet, @CAgovernor's veto of AB 255 deny funding for sobriety-focused programs that could save countless others. Shame on @GavinNewsom for standing in their way.
Amen, @MattMahanSJ!!
Extremely disappointing — we’ve pleaded with our criminal justice system to hold drug dealers and users accountable for the significant impact they have on our public spaces. Here, again, despite multiple arrests for public drug use and now direct violation of a stay-away order, the judge simply returns this repeat offender to the streets to continue to make one of our most historic public parks unusable for the rest of the community. I’ve spoken with the neighboring community center that can’t take the children in their care to the park's playground because of persistent meth and fentanyl use. We should all be livid over a system that prioritizes the supposed civil liberties of the deeply addicted over everyone else’s right to access and use the public spaces for which they are paying. This person needs to be given a choice between treatment or jail, not endless drug use in our parks.
Please fund Prop 36 @CAGovernor and please fix this huge gap in our county’s system of criminal justice and behavioral health @SupOttoLee, @SupEllenberg, @SupBettyDuong, @SylviaArenas, @margaretabekoga, @SCSCourt, @HealthySCC, @SCCProbation. Thank you @SanJosePD and DA Rosen for standing up for community justice. Cc: @TordillosD3, @robertsalonga
Ever felt like rock bottom was your destiny? Adrianna did... for 23 years.
Addiction stole her childhood spark at 13, spiraled into losing her three kids to CPS, endless relapses, and homelessness.
Subsidized housing without the conditions of sobriety or treatment— Housing First— patched the surface but fueled the chaos underneath.
Her story, and her new memoir, are captured beautifully below.
This isn't just Adrianna's win. It's her family's win; it's her clients' win; and ultimately, it's our win.
theadvocates.org/beautifully…
Wow, @kevinvdahlgren… I thought @TinaKotek said there was “nothing to worry about” in Portland? Her lack of regard for these human beings, and those who have to watch them deteriorate in front of their eyes, is cruel and heartless.
As a former Californian who helped thousands of homeless mothers—78% battling addiction—rebuild their lives, I’m devastated.
@CAgovernor vetoed AB 255, denying a mere 10% of homeless funding for sober recovery housing, the best chance these humans have at permanent recovery.
His excuse? Sober housing is “allowed” under CA's Housing First mandate. At same time, he refuses to answer how many sober housing programs CA is funding.
@GavinNewsom's mix of ideology, incompetence, and deceit traps the homeless/CA communities in addiction and despair.
Funding recovery pathways is the way to reverse CA's crisis. Read my Op-Ed below.
