Conservative Politics & News: The P.A.S. Report · Professor Nick Giordano | Conservative Political Analyst & Commentator

The Homelessness Industrial Complex: Billions Spent, Nothing Fixed

December 10, 2025·30 min·2 clips
Two-thirds of San Francisco's drug overdose deaths occur in housing-first units, where isolation proves deadly.
Professor Nick Giordano interviews Mary Thoreau about the homelessness crisis, critiquing the housing-first policy's high costs and poor outcomes, exposing nonprofit corruption, and highlighting community-based solutions like Haven for Hope that restore purpose and agency.

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A blunt case for programs that restore purpose, agency, and recovery.

The episode makes a hard-edged case that homelessness policy is warped by incentives: when conditions worsen, more money and staff tend to follow, and that can end up rewarding the wrong results.

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You want a blunt take on homelessness spending, where perverse incentives can keep programs stuck, and why purpose and structure matter.

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