Decline Is a Choice
Inside America’s Homeless Industrial Complex I’ve been watching this crisis up close for years, and the longer it drags on, the clearer it becomes: decline is a choice. America doesn’t have a homelessness problem because we lack money, compassion, or housing. We have one because we’ve built a self-perpetuating system that profits from failure, normalizes disorder, imports clients, and refuses to acknowledge what actually works. Call it the Homeless Industrial Complex. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s public choice economics in action — billions in annual spending, thousands of careers, powerful ideological commitments, and entrenched institutions all aligned around managing a…