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Devon Kurtz retweeted
This is very, very cool. Why not?
Just the beginning of a legendary night at the People’s House. 📸🇺🇸
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HUD has made it much easier to integrate court-ordered treatment with their housing programs. Now, it’s time for DOJ to remove federal barriers to state psych hospital expansion AND smaller institutional settings. This is the next battle for states looking to reform homelessness.
Replying to @Clancy4Utah
The short answer is our laws are strong, but we (as most states in the US) need more inpatient treatment beds particularly in our state hospital. As you can see as our population has grown, our inpatient mental health beds have decreased. (chart from @taccommunicate )
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
The short answer is our laws are strong, but we (as most states in the US) need more inpatient treatment beds particularly in our state hospital. As you can see as our population has grown, our inpatient mental health beds have decreased. (chart from @taccommunicate )
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
In 2024 (HB 299) Utah amended our civil commitment criteria to include individuals who are “gravely disabled” who lack the ability to make rational decisions surrounding treatment. So why do we consistently see folks on our streets experiencing psychosis & clearly in crisis?
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
As a Sepsis survivor, I welcome @PalantirTech and their technology that is saving lives right now in hospitals across the country. Thank you.
Sepsis kills more people in American hospitals than heart attacks. 350,000 deaths a year, and the reason is brutally simple: the early warning signs are almost invisible. A slightly elevated heart rate. A small temperature shift. A lab value drifting in the wrong direction. Each one looks like noise on a busy ward. By the time the pattern is obvious to a human, the patient is hours into a cascade toward organ failure, and every hour of delayed antibiotics raises mortality. Tampa General built a system on Palantir's Foundry that watches roughly 1,000 inpatients continuously. Vitals, labs, medication records, clinician notes, all scanned in real time for the pattern no single nurse can see across 12 beds at 3am. When risk crosses a threshold, a rapid response team gets paged. Humans still make every treatment decision. The software just compresses detection from hours to minutes. The results since 2022: overall sepsis mortality cut in half, 48-hour deaths down 68%, length of stay down 30%, roughly 900 lives saved. At one hospital. Now run the national math. There are about 6,100 hospitals in the US. If even the 500 largest matched these numbers, you'd be looking at tens of thousands of lives a year from a single use case. The treatment for sepsis hasn't changed. Antibiotics and fluids, same as decades ago. The entire gain comes from starting them earlier. The hardest problem in medicine was never the cure. It was noticing in time.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Every American deserves access to effective mental health and addiction treatment. By bringing 10 new states into the CCBHC Demonstration Program, we are expanding coordinated treatment services in communities across the country. This program strengthens behavioral health systems, advances President Trump's Great American Recovery Initiative, and helps us Make America Healthy Again.
.@HHSgov @CMSgov & SAMHSA announce 10 new states were selected to join the CCBHC Medicaid Demonstration Program—supporting stronger systems & expanding access to mental health & substance use services: samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-an…
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
For too long, homelessness has been treated as permanent rather than solvable. No one should be left on the streets. HUD is reforming federal homeless assistance to restore solutions, including treatment, that give people a real path out.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Replying to @Secondstar14
I love VT. Got the shit kicked out of me outside a bar in Burlington one time though.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Listening to a great discussion on the role of faith-based organizations at the @InstituteCicero Homelessness Policy Summit. Effective solutions to homelessness require more than programs—they require community, accountability, and relationships. Faith-based organizations have a unique ability to provide all three. Appreciating the thoughtful conversation from today’s panel.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Pleased to see two Seattle heavy hitters Amy King of Pallet Shelter and Lisa Daugaard of LEAD at the “evil” 🙄 think tank event with @InstituteCicero This is what adults do: sit in the same room, talk, and seek common ground. Many protesters were invited inside to listen. They refused. Bullhorns don’t solve addiction or homelessness. Dialogue does.
NEW: Friday afternoon, far-left activists targeted Cicero Institute's Homelessness Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. Most of these professional protesters are aligned with Homeless INC and are deathly afraid of losing their gravy train. That's because the Trump administration defunded Housing First, one of the greatest public policy failures in American history. It's made the street crisis worse and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. But now the vast majority of that money will be flowing into treatment and recovery focused providers. Discovery Institute and Cicero Institute played a massive role in helping craft the direction of this new approach that will save lives. We Heart Seattle's Andrea Suarez, Tom Wolf, and North America Recovers Grant Denton are on the ground right now giving us real-time updates. @DiscoveryCWP|@HUDgov|@JTLonsdale|@InstituteCicero|@WhiteHouse|@Twolfrecovery|@grantadenton|@weheartseattle
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Just finished the @InstituteCicero conference on homelessness. It was complete with protests and everything. Here's the truth. Housing First doesn't work for people with addictions and must be changed. I told you I was going to help make that happen.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
NEW: Friday afternoon, far-left activists targeted Cicero Institute's Homelessness Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. Most of these professional protesters are aligned with Homeless INC and are deathly afraid of losing their gravy train. That's because the Trump administration defunded Housing First, one of the greatest public policy failures in American history. It's made the street crisis worse and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. But now the vast majority of that money will be flowing into treatment and recovery focused providers. Discovery Institute and Cicero Institute played a massive role in helping craft the direction of this new approach that will save lives. We Heart Seattle's Andrea Suarez, Tom Wolf, and North America Recovers Grant Denton are on the ground right now giving us real-time updates. @DiscoveryCWP|@HUDgov|@JTLonsdale|@InstituteCicero|@WhiteHouse|@Twolfrecovery|@grantadenton|@weheartseattle
📢 PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDS HOUSING FIRST! Housing First failed. We are thrilled to see @POTUS re-focus our national efforts on a more compassionate approach that supports recovery and self-sufficiency. fixhomelessness.org/2025/dis…
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
The status quo on homelessness is not working. Chronic homelessness is up 80%, while funding has more than doubled. Under @POTUS' leadership, HUD will define success not by dollars spent, but by how many Americans achieve self-sufficiency.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Historic policy change and win! Housing First didn't fix homelessness - it created a funnel for NGO grift, and bad incentives. We've been saying this for years. Now it's federal policy. Good breakdown from @CiceroInstitute on the biggest change to homeless policy in decades.
Housing First had a 20-year run and $4 billion a year. The federal government just killed it. This will change homelessness in every city in America – including yours. Housing First activists sued over the last attempt at major reform. But this time, they’ll have an uphill battle. Here's what you need to know:
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Housing First had a 20-year run and $4 billion a year. The federal government just killed it. This will change homelessness in every city in America – including yours. Housing First activists sued over the last attempt at major reform. But this time, they’ll have an uphill battle. Here's what you need to know:
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
While people vote today in California, I'm heading back to Washington DC to meet with @HUDgov and attend a @InstituteCicero conference on homelessness. We need solutions to the homeless/drug crisis and I'm committed to working with anyone who wants to make that happen.
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
A major report to Congress on homelessness dropped last week. The Homelessness Industrial Complex is celebrating. They shouldn’t be. Here's what they don't want you to notice: Every year, on one night in January, HUD works with local agencies to count homeless people. In January 2024, homelessness hit an all-time high. In January 2025, it was still close to its highest level ever. Calling a 3% drop in homelessness between 2024 and 2025 “success” makes no sense. Since Housing First became federal policy in 2013: - Total homelessness: 27% - Unsheltered homelessness: 36% - Chronic homelessness: 81% - Taxpayer-funded beds: 151% - Federal CoC spending: 111% Does that look like success to you? On top of this, in January 2025, HUD counted 155,750 chronically homeless people. That’s the highest number of chronically homeless people ever recorded. The chronically homeless need serious help. Many are addicted to drugs or mentally ill. There are more of them than ever. The 3% dip in overall homelessness is almost entirely explained by a decrease in the number of asylum seekers in Chicago and New York (due to stronger federal immigration enforcement). Housing First didn’t suddenly start working after more than a decade of failure. The sooner homelessness activists reckon with this fact, the better.
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Dropped in to @homeless_law’s webinar to check out what they had to say about our work in Louisiana and wow, what a warm welcome! Thanks for always being willing to engage in constructive dialogue. Even when we don’t always agree, it’s nice to know that doesn’t have to divide us!
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Devon Kurtz retweeted
Yes, studies show the vast majority of the street homeless, somewhere between 2/3s and nearly 100%, abuse drugs or alcohol. @Spencerpratt and most Americans' commonsense intuition about this is right and the activists are wrong. My latest @Nypost. nypost.com/2026/05/26/opinio…
NEW: Spencer Pratt fires back at reporter after he was asked about his plan for the homeless, says they will all end up in Seattle. Reporter: "What are your plans for the over 40,000 homeless in Los Angeles?" Pratt: "Well, they're not homeless, they're drug addicts... These people have been bused in by scam rehabs, scam NGOs, scam homeless nonprofits." "These people, when I unplug them ... they're all going to Seattle, where the mayor will welcome them."
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