How Radicals Co-Opted The Homelessness Industrial Complex

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Capital Research Center President Scott Walter joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to dive into the data detailing how radicals and extremists are using nonprofits aimed at helping the homeless to achieve leftist political ends.

Read the report "Infiltrated: The Ideological Capture of Homelessness Advocacy" here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:22.1	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist
0:25.3	and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.7	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:34.2	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:37.4	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.
0:44.0	Our guest today is Scott Walter, president of the Capital Research Center.
0:48.8	We discuss the government to watchdog's new report exposing how extremist ideological movements are exploiting America's
0:58.0	homelessness crisis. This 113 page report by Capital Research Center in cooperation with the
1:05.9	Discovery Institute is a deep dive into a serious issue, radicalizing an area that, well, a lot of people
1:15.6	might least suspect.
1:17.4	Scott, thank you, as always, for joining us on this edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:21.5	Great to be with you.
1:23.4	Absolutely.
1:24.0	This is a deep dive report.
1:26.0	I mean, you folks, you dug into financial data, legal records. This is a lot of original research. Let's just put it simply. This is a lot of work to get into the myriad leftist organizations, Marxist organizations that are co-opting
1:45.8	homelessness advocacy
1:48.0	for their political ends.
1:50.6	If you wouldn't mind,
1:51.5	how did this come about?
1:53.3	And what did your research find?
1:58.2	Well, the Discovery Institute
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