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Dissenting Statement: Millennial Housing Commission
To improve affordability, we must increase family incomes and
reduce governmental policies that restrain housing supply and raise costs. The Millennial Housing Commission report proposes widely expanding housing programs, but, to a large degree, ignores these underlying factors that create housing problems in the first place. Read More.
Housing Policy and Welfare Reform
Government housing programs should be restructured according to the current principles of welfare reform. First, able-bodied recipients should be required to be fully employed or to undertake activities leading to employment. Second, healthy marriage should be encouraged not penalized. Read More.

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Special Report posted February 8, 2012 by William Beach, Patrick Tyrrell The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011. The United States has long reached the…
Executive Summary posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Executive Summary: Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the full text here Each year for the past two decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty.” In recent years, the Census has reported that one in seven Americans are poor. But what does it…
Backgrounder posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the Executive Summary Abstract: For decades, the U.S.…
Testimony posted September 29, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Crime Against the Homeless: Tragic, but a Problem not Requiring Federal Action
Before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate …
Report on August 17, 2010 Solutions for America: The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare
THE ISSUE: Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help. Poverty in…
WebMemo posted May 31, 2002 by Robert Rector Dissenting Statement to the Report of the Millennial Housing Commission
I have chosen to dissent from the report of the Millennial Housing Commission because the Commission's report largely deals with the superficial symptoms of high housing costs and ignores the underlying causes of the problem. In addition, the report uses faulty data…
Backgrounder Update posted June 20, 1990 by Carl Horowitz The "New" Cranston-D'Amato Housing Bill: Still Bad News for the Poor
(Archived document, may contain errors) 6/20/90 135 THE "NEW'CRANSTON-DIAMATO HOUSING BILL: STILL BAD NEWS FOR THE POOR(Updating Issue Bulletin No. 152, "Cranston-D'Amato's S. 565: Neglecting America's Poor," September 22, 1989.) The Senate next week is likely to take floor action on the National Affordable Housing Act (S.566, formerly S.565), fifteen…
Backgrounder on October 2, 1989 "Homelessness: Describing the Symptoms, Prescribing a Cure"
(Archived document, may contain errors) 729 October 2,19 89 INTRODUCI'ION Thousands of compassionate Americans will march on Washington October 7th to draw attention to the strategy that they believe will win the war on homelessness. Their prescription: a massive increase in federal money to help construct hous ing. Their slogan: "Housing NOW!" The organizers are…
Backgrounder posted May 6, 1985 by S. Anna A Strategy for Helping America's Homeless
(Archived document, may contain errors) i I 43 1 May 6, 1985 A STRATEGY FOR HELPING AMERICA'S HOMELESS INTRODUCT I ON c To judge from recent media reports, America faces a growing crisis of homelessness million homeless Americans has been repeated so of ten that it has now acquired the status of conventional wisdom.…

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Special Report posted February 8, 2012 by William Beach, Patrick Tyrrell The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011. The United States has long reached the…
Report on August 17, 2010 Solutions for America: The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare
THE ISSUE: Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help. Poverty in…
WebMemo posted May 31, 2002 by Robert Rector Dissenting Statement to the Report of the Millennial Housing Commission
I have chosen to dissent from the report of the Millennial Housing Commission because the Commission's report largely deals with the superficial symptoms of high housing costs and ignores the underlying causes of the problem. In addition, the report uses faulty data…
Executive Summary posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Executive Summary: Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the full text here Each year for the past two decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty.” In recent years, the Census has reported that one in seven Americans are poor. But what does it…
Backgrounder posted May 6, 1985 by S. Anna A Strategy for Helping America's Homeless
(Archived document, may contain errors) i I 43 1 May 6, 1985 A STRATEGY FOR HELPING AMERICA'S HOMELESS INTRODUCT I ON c To judge from recent media reports, America faces a growing crisis of homelessness million homeless Americans has been repeated so of ten that it has now acquired the status of conventional wisdom.…
Backgrounder on October 2, 1989 "Homelessness: Describing the Symptoms, Prescribing a Cure"
(Archived document, may contain errors) 729 October 2,19 89 INTRODUCI'ION Thousands of compassionate Americans will march on Washington October 7th to draw attention to the strategy that they believe will win the war on homelessness. Their prescription: a massive increase in federal money to help construct hous ing. Their slogan: "Housing NOW!" The organizers are…
Testimony posted September 29, 2010 by David Muhlhausen, Ph.D. Crime Against the Homeless: Tragic, but a Problem not Requiring Federal Action
Before the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate …
Backgrounder posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the Executive Summary Abstract: For decades, the U.S.…
Backgrounder Update posted June 20, 1990 by Carl Horowitz The "New" Cranston-D'Amato Housing Bill: Still Bad News for the Poor
(Archived document, may contain errors) 6/20/90 135 THE "NEW'CRANSTON-DIAMATO HOUSING BILL: STILL BAD NEWS FOR THE POOR(Updating Issue Bulletin No. 152, "Cranston-D'Amato's S. 565: Neglecting America's Poor," September 22, 1989.) The Senate next week is likely to take floor action on the National Affordable Housing Act (S.566, formerly S.565), fifteen…

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Special Report posted February 8, 2012 by William Beach, Patrick Tyrrell The 2012 Index of Dependence on Government
Abstract: The great and calamitous fiscal trends of our time—dependence on government by an increasing portion of the American population, and soaring debt that threatens the financial integrity of the economy—worsened yet again in 2010 and 2011. The United States has long reached the…
Executive Summary posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Executive Summary: Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What Is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the full text here Each year for the past two decades, the U.S. Census Bureau has reported that over 30 million Americans were living in “poverty.” In recent years, the Census has reported that one in seven Americans are poor. But what does it…
Backgrounder posted July 19, 2011 by Robert Rector, Rachel Sheffield Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?
Read the Executive Summary Abstract: For decades, the U.S.…
Report on August 17, 2010 Solutions for America: The Unsustainable Growth of Welfare
THE ISSUE: Despite spending almost $16 trillion since the War on Poverty began in 1964, welfare programs have failed to reduce the causes of poverty, and instead have hurt many of the people they were intended to help. Poverty in…
WebMemo posted May 31, 2002 by Robert Rector Dissenting Statement to the Report of the Millennial Housing Commission
I have chosen to dissent from the report of the Millennial Housing Commission because the Commission's report largely deals with the superficial symptoms of high housing costs and ignores the underlying causes of the problem. In addition, the report uses faulty data…
Backgrounder Update posted June 20, 1990 by Carl Horowitz The "New" Cranston-D'Amato Housing Bill: Still Bad News for the Poor
(Archived document, may contain errors) 6/20/90 135 THE "NEW'CRANSTON-DIAMATO HOUSING BILL: STILL BAD NEWS FOR THE POOR(Updating Issue Bulletin No. 152, "Cranston-D'Amato's S. 565: Neglecting America's Poor," September 22, 1989.) The Senate next week is likely to take floor action on the National Affordable Housing Act (S.566, formerly S.565), fifteen…
Backgrounder on October 2, 1989 "Homelessness: Describing the Symptoms, Prescribing a Cure"
(Archived document, may contain errors) 729 October 2,19 89 INTRODUCI'ION Thousands of compassionate Americans will march on Washington October 7th to draw attention to the strategy that they believe will win the war on homelessness. Their prescription: a massive increase in federal money to help construct hous ing. Their slogan: "Housing NOW!" The organizers are…
Backgrounder posted May 6, 1985 by S. Anna A Strategy for Helping America's Homeless
(Archived document, may contain errors) i I 43 1 May 6, 1985 A STRATEGY FOR HELPING AMERICA'S HOMELESS INTRODUCT I ON c To judge from recent media reports, America faces a growing crisis of homelessness million homeless Americans has been repeated so of ten that it has now acquired the status of conventional wisdom.…

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