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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast today.

We are going to be talking about an increasingly bigger problem in the United States every single day, and that is homelessness.

We have an expert with us today.

Her name is Michelle Steeb, and she actually authored a book recently

in the last few years called Answers Behind the Red Door, Battling the Homelessness Epidemic.

It's something that Michelle has dealt with for years. You've worked in California, 13 years,

as the CEO of Northern California's largest program, and now you work on another program. You have a

foundation and you work with Discovery Institute. I want to talk to you about this issue today

because I think a lot of people feel like there's not really an answer, but you have come up

with an answer. Well, there's more than one answer, but the answer that there is not

is the approach that we've been under for the last 12 years. It's an approach called Housing First.

I'll explain what that is in the second, but this approach was designed for a very small segment

of the homeless population, 10 to 20 percent, called the chronically homeless.

And the George W. Bush administration introduced it in 2008 for that population.

However, in 2013, without any evidence that it would work as a one-size-fits-all approach

to homelessness, the Obama administration rolled it out again as a one-size-fits-all.

And they promised, they literally promised he did in writing that it would end homelessness

in a decade. And here we are,

12 years later, we're at the highest point ever in our nation's history. It's up 30, almost 35%.

It's been a disaster at every level of the system. It's destroyed lives. It's destroyed communities.

And it just, thankfully, this president has said enough is enough.

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