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What We’re Watching – How Private Charities Can Help Address California’s Homeless Crisis

Ben Smithwick – How Private Charities Can Help Address California’s Homeless Crisis This is a must-watch short documentary profiling three programs of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles. The film demonstrates the importance of creating a policy environment that allows private charities to become more deeply involved in addressing the homelessness ...
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Newsom’s Homeless Task Force Shuts Out Private Charities, Non-Profits

California’s homeless crisis continues to wage out of control on the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and communities across the state. State and local politicians have given lots of lip service about “taking action” to solve the problem.  Not surprisingly, their vision for addressing the problem only involves ...
Agriculture

CAPITAL IDEAS: California Fun For A Few, A Hardship For Many

DOWNLOAD PDF California is the most fun state in the country. So says the website WalletHub. It can’t be fun for everyone, though. Many would say living in California is a miserable existence. If the standard for fun is measured by the vast opportunities of things to do, things to ...
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Blue State Model Continues To Drag Down California

About the same time two of California’s largest cities were named among the seven worst-run municipalities in the country, we learn that the state’s — and the country’s — largest county had the worst population outflow in the U.S. in 2018. The livin’ in California ain’t easy, in the summertime ...
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The latest victim of SF’s homeless crisis? Luxury shopping!

San Francisco’s homeless crisis may soon have a new victim – luxury shopping in the City. The City by the Bay has long been known as home to the world’s best shopping.  It was home to now-defunct high-end retailers like I. Magnin, and the Joseph Magnin, Co. started by one ...
California

Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden – Addressing San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis

PRI’s Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden join us to discuss their new issue brief on San Francisco’s growing homeless crisis.  They explore just how bad the problem really is in the City by the Bay and how the city got in this mess, analyze current efforts of city officials to ...
California

Kerry Jackson Responds to President Trump’s Take on CA Homeless Crisis in Daily Signal

‘This Is the Liberal Establishment’: As Homelessness Rises in Major Cities, Trump Speaks Out By Fred Lucas President Donald Trump says he is working on a plan to address a spike in homelessness in the United States, particularly in several California cities. During a Fox News Channel interview that aired ...
California

If Newsom Is Right, California’s Rot Is Coming To The Rest Of America

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom predicted this week that the Republican Party will “will go into the waste bin of society.” It was an interesting comment, coming only a couple of weeks after his party’s presidential candidates appeared at California’s Democratic Party convention. That convention showed why California is moving in a ...
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What We’re Watching – June 21

Tim Anaya – John Stossel on San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis This week, PRI released a new issue brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis, authored by our Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden. With homelessness in San Francisco on my mind, I present a recent video on homelessness in San Francisco from ...
California

NEW STUDY: Free-Market Reforms, Private Charities Key to Addressing San Francisco’s Growing Homeless Crisis

A new brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis published today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute concludes that the city could make great strides in reducing homelessness by encouraging and supporting private sector involvement, while making policy changes that will invite a homebuilding boom. The brief includes more than a ...
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What We’re Watching – How Private Charities Can Help Address California’s Homeless Crisis

Ben Smithwick – How Private Charities Can Help Address California’s Homeless Crisis This is a must-watch short documentary profiling three programs of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles. The film demonstrates the importance of creating a policy environment that allows private charities to become more deeply involved in addressing the homelessness ...
Blog

Newsom’s Homeless Task Force Shuts Out Private Charities, Non-Profits

California’s homeless crisis continues to wage out of control on the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and communities across the state. State and local politicians have given lots of lip service about “taking action” to solve the problem.  Not surprisingly, their vision for addressing the problem only involves ...
Agriculture

CAPITAL IDEAS: California Fun For A Few, A Hardship For Many

DOWNLOAD PDF California is the most fun state in the country. So says the website WalletHub. It can’t be fun for everyone, though. Many would say living in California is a miserable existence. If the standard for fun is measured by the vast opportunities of things to do, things to ...
Blog

Blue State Model Continues To Drag Down California

About the same time two of California’s largest cities were named among the seven worst-run municipalities in the country, we learn that the state’s — and the country’s — largest county had the worst population outflow in the U.S. in 2018. The livin’ in California ain’t easy, in the summertime ...
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The latest victim of SF’s homeless crisis? Luxury shopping!

San Francisco’s homeless crisis may soon have a new victim – luxury shopping in the City. The City by the Bay has long been known as home to the world’s best shopping.  It was home to now-defunct high-end retailers like I. Magnin, and the Joseph Magnin, Co. started by one ...
California

Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden – Addressing San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis

PRI’s Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden join us to discuss their new issue brief on San Francisco’s growing homeless crisis.  They explore just how bad the problem really is in the City by the Bay and how the city got in this mess, analyze current efforts of city officials to ...
California

Kerry Jackson Responds to President Trump’s Take on CA Homeless Crisis in Daily Signal

‘This Is the Liberal Establishment’: As Homelessness Rises in Major Cities, Trump Speaks Out By Fred Lucas President Donald Trump says he is working on a plan to address a spike in homelessness in the United States, particularly in several California cities. During a Fox News Channel interview that aired ...
California

If Newsom Is Right, California’s Rot Is Coming To The Rest Of America

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom predicted this week that the Republican Party will “will go into the waste bin of society.” It was an interesting comment, coming only a couple of weeks after his party’s presidential candidates appeared at California’s Democratic Party convention. That convention showed why California is moving in a ...
Blog

What We’re Watching – June 21

Tim Anaya – John Stossel on San Francisco’s Homeless Crisis This week, PRI released a new issue brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis, authored by our Kerry Jackson and Wayne Winegarden. With homelessness in San Francisco on my mind, I present a recent video on homelessness in San Francisco from ...
California

NEW STUDY: Free-Market Reforms, Private Charities Key to Addressing San Francisco’s Growing Homeless Crisis

A new brief on San Francisco’s homeless crisis published today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute concludes that the city could make great strides in reducing homelessness by encouraging and supporting private sector involvement, while making policy changes that will invite a homebuilding boom. The brief includes more than a ...
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