Talking Points: Ted’s Approach

Opening Statement
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EXODUS II — The Unfinished Work of the Republic

Homelessness in America is not primarily a failure of compassion, nor a shortage of program models.

Across the nation, thousands of social service providers work diligently. Many programs succeed at stabilization, rehabilitation, and transitional support.

Yet even successful programs too often lead into a structural cul-de-sac — a system where services circulate individuals without establishing a durable exit into full civic participation and mainstream economic life.

The result is stagnation.

Like a once-flowing stream dammed into a stagnant pool, well-intended systems can unintentionally create environments where dependency, bureaucratic inertia, funding distortion, and political manipulation take root. When flow stops, decay begins — financially, socially, and institutionally.

• Who is Ted Hayes (Brief bio statement)
• Metaphor: Mansion Fire and Slave Escape
• Rethink homelessness – Mainstream resistance (from here to where in society? There is no return, nor first-time entry)
• A sick society generates homelessness, the people of which are “gaslighted” as being the threat to public health and safety.
• How we got here: LAHSA and USICH failed history
  > Failure of USICH (US Interagency Council On Homelessness 1987 – 2025 = 39 years)
  Failure of LAHSA (LA Homeless Services Authority 1993-2025 = 32 years)> Roots of encampment growth – Defense of Necessity

The Resolution
Presidential Executive Ordered Stategic, Nation Plan for holistic homelessness resolution

Objective
Capture USICH – Describe USICH

Program
EXODUS II – New Frontier – Its meaning

• Domestic Peace Corps: Presidential involvement (The key human element)

From the National Homelessness Capital, Ted Hayes, America’s longest and foremost homelessness activist, not because of notoriety, as it is little in comparison, but unique, unprecendented experinces, and the only Civil Rights, homeless Resolution in USA with the only strategic national plan to resolve it, along with other related matters, that lead to homelessness.

Beginning in 1985, relying on his faith in GOD’s revealed will, he protested, demonstrated, lobbied the LA city, county, and national government, i.e., Congress, and particularly the Presidents of every POTUS since George H.W. Bush to Donald J. Trump.

Ted’s White House, Negotiations A-Team worked with the Trump Administration from late September to late December, teaching the President, via his staff, many things about the behind-the-scenes of homelessness, especially in LA; as well as presenting resolutions, particularly that by use of federal land by direct Presidential authority.