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It's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, federal policy changes on homelessness.

Anne Aleva is the CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

She speaks with Dr. Josh Starstein about the recent executive order issued by President Trump,

what it means for people living on the streets and how the VA has significantly reduced homelessness

among veterans and what comes next at the state and local levels. Let's listen. Anne Aleva, thank you so much

for joining me today in Public Health on Call to talk about this executive order on homelessness

that President Trump signed at the end of July. How are you doing today? Hi, Josh. Thank you so

much for having me. I'm doing okay, a little concerned about a number of things that we're going to talk about, but we'll get into that in a minute. I'm looking forward to it. But before we really get into it, could you introduce yourself to our audience as well as the National Alliance to End Homelessness that you run? Sure. Again, my name is Anne Oliva.

I am the CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

We are a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose mission is really simple.

It's to end homelessness in the United States.

And we do that in four different ways.

We have a public policy shop where we talk to public

officials about what works. We run a research institute. We conduct strategic communications. And we do

community level capacity building. So you work all over the country. And Holmondsness has been getting worse in the United States recently?

It has. Unsheltered homelessness has been going up every year since 2016. And over the last couple of

years, we have seen pretty significant increases in the number of people experiencing homelessness.

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