Devon Kurtz (@dkurtzz) / X

Devon Kurtz

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Devon Kurtz

@dkurtzz

Public Safety Policy @InstituteCicero “a powerful ally” - Bloomberg News “young and bespectacled” - WORLD

Joined September 2011

Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 8, 2025
North Carolina is at the center of the latest debate over homelessness and drug policy. NC is advancing bills that would regulate camping and punish drug dealers who target vulnerable homeless people AND providers who turn a blind eye. Here are the highlights in NC media:🧵
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 29, 2025
More deceptive commentary on NC homelessness. This activist would rather let vets live in squalor, be robbed, and die of overdoses than: 1. Hold cities accountable for clearing camps and moving ppl to safer areas 2. Hold providers accountable for drugs in their facilities.
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 28, 2025
Greensboro News & Record reports some hard truths. Homeless ppl are: 15x as likely to be robbed 9x as likely to be sexually assaulted 175x as likely to commit robbery, 25% of homeless ppl in NC are registered sex offenders It’s not “mean” to respond to this tragic crisis.
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Jul 24, 2025
At Cicero, our team has been fighting for 7+ years to raise the alarm about the ways the federal government and misguided activists have led communities astray on managing crime, homelessness, and disorder. Today, the White House is taking unprecedented corrective action.
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Aug 20, 2025
President Trump’s actions in DC and his recent EO on crime and disorder are both steps in the right direction. For too long, activists have misled Americans about the true nature of homelessness, and the result has been a humanitarian disaster. The President is taking this
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 12, 2025
North Carolina is actively debating camping policies, and activists have tried very hard to fight against common sense policies and frame the debate as politically charged. It’s NOT. Republicans and Democrats agree that letting ppl remain in encampments is NOT compassionate.
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 29, 2025
Democrats and Republicans agree: homeless encampments are NOT safe and it is more compassionate to move people into shelter— even if they initially refuse. We must hold municipal governments and homeless service providers accountable for letting people die on the street.
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 12, 2025
California is taking the right steps to ensure that homeless ppl are not left to die in dangerous camps. @GavinNewsom is now following the lead of courageous governors who did this before it was popular: @GovRonDeSantis @GregAbbott_TX @GovStitt @tatereeves @GovernorLittle
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Apr 28, 2025
After months of reviewing state sex offender registries, @InstituteCicero has finally completed and published a first-of-its-kind study of the prevalence of sex offenders in the homeless population. Some of the major findings: 🧵
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Jun 9, 2025
The era of unaccountable homeless NGOs is over. “Even if this bill is not successful, these changes are coming,” Kurtz said in an interview. “By this time next year, I don’t see any way where this program looks like it does now – it’s only a matter of time.”
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Jun 19, 2025
The federal homelessness system is undergoing a seismic shift. After decades of incompetence and misguided ideology, Congress and the Trump Admin is poised to restructure how communities get funds for homelessness. The changes empower states, and sideline the DC-NGO complex
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
Aug 15, 2025
Don’t listen to orgs like @homeless_law when they tell you that what’s happening in DC is about down-on-their-luck people with no where else to go. -only 4% of homeless cited housing costs as the main reason they’re homeless. -sex offenders make up more than 50% of the homeless
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 8, 2025
Great piece in the Economist tracing the growing bipartisan consensus on homelessness, and our work at Cicero. Gov Newsom is on the same page as GOP lawmakers in KY, OK, UT, etc. It isn’t partisan to ask: “Is it okay to let them die out there?”
American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?
From economist.com
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Devon Kurtz
@dkurtzz
May 19, 2025
A new op-ed in the Greensboro News & Record claims it’s mean to ask her homeless friend to not sleep on the street. But the author admits that he is frequently robbed bc of his living situation. Is it mean to move people out of dangerous situations on the street?
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