--- title: Five Best: Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis description: Homelessness should be a national crisis, more than 250 NFL players suffered on-field concussions and more. canonical: https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-02T17:00:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:09.835Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 2, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Why isn’t homelessness a national crisis?**](https://www.curbed.com/2018/2/1/16956732/homelessness-hud-housing-mayors) By Alyssa Walker in _Curbed_ **2\.** [**This NFL season, more than 250 players suffered on-field concussions. Here’s what that looks like.**](https://fieldofvision.org/concussion-protocol) By Josh Begley in _Field of Vision_ **3\.** [**Boycotting companies for bad politics doesn’t work as well as supporting ones making good political decisions.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40524113/dont-boycott-bad-companies-spend-more-with-good-ones) By Eillie Anzilotti in _Fast Company_ **4\.** [**In the future, dentists won’t bother filling cavities. They’ll just teach your teeth to regrow.**](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/instead-of-filling-cavities-dentists-may-soon-regenerate-teeth/) By Ferris Jabr in _Scientific American_ **5\.** [**To address our deepening climate crisis, environmentalists might have to accept some ugly tradeoffs.**](https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs) By David Roberts in _Vox_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/"},"headline":"Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis","datePublished":"2018-02-02T17:00:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:09.835Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","climate change","NFL","homelessness","teeth","Business"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5130419/homelessness-should-be-a-national-crisis/","name":"Homelessness Should Be a National Crisis"}}]}] ```