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Charles Fain Lehman

What Charles Fain Lehman thinks about housing

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Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on crime, drugs and disorder, and author of the newsletter The Causal Fallacy. Writes in favour of enforcement and prohibition on empirical rather than moral grounds.

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2 dated positions, 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Charles Fain Lehman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingPutting people into temporary shelter cuts crime and psychiatric emergencies without waiting for permanent housing to be built.

    Their wordsIt turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.

    ↗You Don't Have to End Homelessness To Make Cities Saferthecausalfallacy.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  3. Our readingThe social harms attributed to homelessness come from people being unsheltered, not from their lacking a permanent home.

    Their wordsRead this in the context of Christopher et al., and the reasonable conclusion is that many of the problems associated with homelessness are the result of unsheltered homelessness.

    ↗You Don't Have to End Homelessness To Make Cities Saferthecausalfallacy.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece