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Exposing the Homeless Industrial Complex

Exposing the Homeless Industrial Complex
Homeless people wait to be checked into a hotel room in Venice Beach, Calif., on April 26, 2020. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images
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Earlier this month, a guest column in the San Jose Spotlight defended efforts by homeless nonprofits to end homelessness in Santa Clara County. The writer, Ray Bramson, is the chief impact officer at the nonprofit Destination: Home, a tax-exempt organization that collected more than $62 million in contributions and grants in 2020 (pdf). The CEO of this organization made a reported $335,404 that year, and one of the directors made a whopping $754,871, of which a hefty $693,186 was “base compensation.”
Edward Ring
Edward Ring
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Edward Ring is a contributing editor and senior fellow with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: “Fixing California: Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism” (2021) and “The Abundance Choice: Our Fight for More Water in California” (2022).
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