Room for Improvement: The Shockingly Simple, Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness
Utah found a budget-friendly, effective way to reduce homelessness: build housing and give it to homeless people, no strings attached.
The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness
In the past 9 years, Utah decreased the number of homeless by 72 percent. Their tactic is shockingly simple: provide housing, with no strings attached. Can the Housing First model be replicated across the country?
The Ongoing Mysteries of the Elizabeth Smart Case
A guilty verdict for Brian David Mitchell is in. But the questions the case raised about polygamy, prophecy, and insanity remain murky. “We knew Brian David Mitchell as a temple moth and thought he was crazy but harmless. This is why we didn’t suspect him, even when he walked around downtown with Elizabeth in tow, her face covered by a veil. It’s about the strangest thing that’s ever happened in Salt Lake City, and it could only have happened here, in this place and time, perhaps caused by the aura emanating from the temple itself.”