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Matthew B. Anderson

Matthew Anderson is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Eastern Washington University, and is the co-author of a recent paper that examines the role of for-profit businesses, non-governmental organizations and private-sector coalitions in shaping municipal responses to homelessness that punish and retaliate against the unhoused. The paper studied responses in Portland and Spokane.

Matthew B. Anderson's Latest Articles

Our homeless policy is like putting a bandaid on internal bleeding

By Matthew B. Anderson ● Housing ● September 20, 2023

Spokane — and America — will never fix homelessness until it gets serious about providing housing for all levels of the market.