Episode 100: There are debates happening in all parts of our country about homelessness, and according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, things have been getting worse.

Since 2017, homelessness has risen by 6 percent nationwide, and although nearly everyone wants to reverse this trend, there is little agreement about how to accomplish that.

Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott Rada discuss the causes that got us to this point, along with the policies that might help us reduce this trend.

Links to stories discussed during the podcast:

Here's why we should choose compassion over callousness, by Richard Kyte

The root cause of the homelessness crisis, by Jerusalem Demsas, The Atlantic

The ethical dilemmas behind plans for involuntary treatment to target homelessness, mental illness and addiction, by Katherine Drabiak, The Conversation

About the hosts: Scott Rada is social media manager with Lee Enterprises, and Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wis.

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