(2016/09/02) Home sweet home (Housing and Homelessness)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 September 2016
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1040
Today we take a look at a couple of solutions to homelessness as well as some of the forces at play that effect how and where people live across the country
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Let's End Homeless Hate Laws - Brave New Films: Justice - Air Date: 12-8-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Homeless (with Ladysmith Black Mambazo) - Paul Simon
Ch. 4: Act 2: Fiscally Conservative: Free Homes for Homeless SAVE MONEY for Utah - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 11-22-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Ch. 6: Act 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Urban Land Use Decision-Baltimore Ecosystem Study - @InfinEarthRadio - Air Date 6-2-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Rows of Homes - The Western States Motel
Ch. 8: Act 4: .@TaliaBuford on EPA and Environmental Racism - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-5-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Home - Phillip Phillips
Ch. 11: Song 5: Back Home - Andy Grammer
Ch. 12: Act 6: Right to the City: From Policing to Planning: Putting People in Charge - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 3-8-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Home - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Ch. 14: Act 7: Tell Congress to #MakeRoom for Affordable Housing via @MakeRoom - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: This Fickle World - Theo Bard
Ch. 16: Act 8: Rep. @keithellison on ensuring safe, affordable housing for all - We the Podcast - Air Date 8-8-16
Voicemails
Ch. 17: Look into the green party - Chris from Southern Illinois
Ch. 18: Let's move on to after the election - Emma from New York City
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 19: Final comments on how supporters of the show helped a family in need
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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EDUCATE YOURSELF
"Affordable housing advocates push for Baltimore charter amendment, future funding" (Baltimore Sun)
"The lack of affordable housing is causing a public health disaster in Oakland" (Fusion.net)
"Public health problems in Oakland linked to housing crisis" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Dallas is pushing in the right direction on affordable housing" (Dallas Morning News)
"Rep. Ellison Introduces the Common Sense Housing Investment Act" (EllisonHouse.gov)
"Sanders Announces Vermont Secures $3 Million for Affordable Housing, Praises First-Ever Funding of National Housing Trust Fund" (Sanders.senate.gov)
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| 0:28.6 | We're now looking to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from |
| 0:32.3 | Brave New Films, the David Pakman show, the Lorre Flinders show, Counter-Spin, Infinite |
| 0:37.3 | Earth Radio, and We The Podcast with Representative Keith Ellison. |
| 0:42.4 | 10 starps and other temporary shelters will soon be illegal in the city of Mantika. |
| 0:49.6 | We're being hemmed down. |
| 0:50.6 | Okay, we got nowhere to go anymore. |
| 0:52.8 | All it's been to is shuffle it somewhere else. |
| 0:54.8 | But they're not going nowhere. |
| 0:56.7 | It is now illegal to sit or lie on the sidewalks in a number of areas across Oahu. |
| 1:03.4 | You'd be surprised he's homeless. |
| 1:05.4 | I mean, I got a family, he's autistic. |
| 1:07.7 | I don't want him out here. |
| 1:09.8 | Got homeless twice in one year. |
| 1:11.4 | We're just losing our jobs and not being able to pay our bills. |
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