#1455 How to End Homelessness
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 11/12/2021
Today we take a look at the current state of homelessness in America and the best solution we currently know of to tackle the problem. Surprisingly simple, the best way to end homelessness is to give people homes.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Homelessness - Last Week Tonight - Air Date 11-1-21
With homelessness increasing nationwide, John Oliver takes a look at the way we discuss the unhoused, what policy failures are making the problem worse, and how we can help.
Ch. 2: Should America Outlaw Homelessness - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 6-8-21
Homelessness is an epidemic in America “Housing First” is a the solution that has been embraced by countries around the world. Time to repudiate the failed Reaganomics experiment and take homelessness seriously again here in America.
Ch. 3: Housing First - 99% Invisible - Air Date 12-8-20
In the 1980's, a psychologist named Sam Tsemberis was working with mentally ill homeless people on the streets of New York. Sometimes, when he thought it was necessary to keep someone safe, Sam would have people committed to a psychiatric hospital.
We’re seeing massive homelessness in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing - Will America remove housing from their clutches?
Ch. 5: How Finland Ended Homelessness - Second Thought - Air Date 9-3-21
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 6: The Criminalization of Poverty - Justice In America - Air Date 1-23-19
On this episode, we explore the countless ways the criminal justice system criminalizes poverty—and homelessness in particular. From what is considered criminal to how it is punished, people that are poor or in America are punished more.
Correction: The introduction to this story stated that 35,000 people are without a place to live in San Francisco. In fact, that figure refers to the greater San Francisco Bay Area, including San Jose, Oakland and surrounding counties.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 8: Final comments on the panicked flail of those who used to be ahead of the curve but have now been left behind
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.0 | take a look at the current state of homelessness in America and the best solution we currently |
| 0:11.9 | know of to tackle the problem. |
| 0:14.1 | Spoiler alert, it's surprisingly simple. |
| 0:16.3 | The best way to end homelessness is to give people homes. |
| 0:19.7 | You should still listen though. |
| 0:21.0 | Close today are from last week tonight with John Oliver, the Tom Hartman program, 99% |
| 0:26.7 | visible and second thought with additional members only clips from Justice in America and the |
| 0:32.6 | PBS News Hour. |
| 0:40.1 | I know it is easy to criticize Fox News for being alarmist. |
| 0:43.6 | Alarmism is their whole thing. |
| 0:45.2 | That and airing ads for pills that make your dick go bongo. |
| 0:48.0 | But the truth is, even some residents of Austin, famously a blue dot in a red state, have |
| 0:53.8 | said it's been a struggle to reconcile their feelings about their homeless neighbors. |
| 0:58.0 | Do you think if you had seen this issue happening in another city and it wasn't happening in |
| 1:02.1 | your neighborhood, you would feel differently? |
| 1:04.4 | Once you're in the middle of it, you change your mind of how you approach the situation. |
| 1:09.6 | But as your safety declines, so does your compassion. |
| 1:14.1 | Every time I have to pick up human shit, my liberalness just got lowered one more notch. |
| 1:20.9 | Wow, that is very honest. |
| 1:24.0 | Every time I have to pick up human shit, my liberalism gets lowered is quite the sentence. |
| 1:28.6 | Well, the surprise it was heard in this context and not in a leaked recording from an Amy |
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