BLTNT Podcast · 2026-07-03 · 1h 9m
Father Tim McCabe grew up blue collar in Detroit, worked construction, ran refugee programs, and spent years with people at the bottom before he ever put on a collar. He was assigned to a day center for the homeless in 2015. But after five people died of fentanyl overdoses within a couple of days, his team sat together and someone said it doesn't have to be this way. So he started building and he raised nearly $40 million without a donor database. The Pope Francis Center now has a bridge housing facility designed around trauma, with wide hallways, natural light, on-site medical and psychiatric care, a full curriculum, and people graduating to housing. Here's everything we covered: → Why trauma-informed care is the only approach that works for chronic homelessness → How he raised $13 million from a family in California who found him on a Google search → Why Housing First doesn't fix "habitual homelessness” → The moment he knew the building was going to happen → Where the work goes next: housing, trades, and ending the cycle for good Father Tim didn't wait for permission, a budget, or proof it would work. He just started moving and kept going until the resources caught up.
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