House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump have pledged to revamp our nation’s welfare system for the first time since 1994. These changes could not come soon enough. The War on Poverty, which was launched in 1965, has cost three times as much as all our wars combined since the American Revolution.

Yet, after spending $22 trillion, this war remains a stalemate at best. And when it comes to homelessness, the numbers are moving in the wrong direction.