"The Cicero Institute, created by tech investor Joe Lonsdale, has spent the past few years promoting aggressive policies targeting encampments for the unhoused and pushing cities to move away from Housing First, the U.S.'s primary model for responding to chronic homelessness. Over the summer, HUD quietly adopted several of Cicero's key recommendations. And the result was widespread panic among the local agencies responsible for keeping people housed."
"Joe Lonsdale, best known as a founding partner of Palantir and a member of the original " PayPal Mafia," created the Cicero Institute in 2016 to inject what he calls " entrepreneurial thinking" into government. The group operates on a roughly $10 million annual budget that is financed by undisclosed donors, and its board is dominated by Lonsdale's family members, other entrepreneurs, and political staffers."
Last fall, HUD implemented a rapid set of policy changes with minimal warning and guidance that threatened to push up to 170,000 formerly unhoused Americans out of stable housing. Much of the policy shift stemmed from the Cicero Institute, a think tank founded by tech investor Joe Lonsdale that promotes aggressive encampment removal and rejects Housing First as the primary response to chronic homelessness. HUD quietly adopted several of Cicero's recommendations, producing widespread panic among local agencies charged with keeping people housed. The Cicero Institute operates on roughly a $10 million budget funded by undisclosed donors and has a board dominated by Lonsdale allies.
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