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99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Trailer for the new 99% Invisible limited series According to Need

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0:00.0	A little over five years ago, I moved across the country to take a job in beautiful downtown
0:05.5	Oakland, California.
0:07.8	I didn't realize I was part of a trend, but I was.
0:11.0	Thousands of other people were also moving to the Bay Area for work.
0:15.6	The cost of rent skyrocketed, and over the course of about five years homelessness in
0:21.1	the county where I live, doubled.
0:25.8	In the whole of the town you can see the effects of this, almost as if a tidal wave of wealth
0:30.3	washed people out of their houses and into the streets, into tents and RVs and cars.
0:37.5	I know these people right here, I know these people right here, I know them people right
0:43.1	there.
0:44.1	All hummus, all homes in the cars.
0:46.9	They're renting the not apartments, they're not bedrooms, beds for 1200 a month near the
0:52.4	college.
0:53.4	That's outrageous.
0:54.4	It's hard to get out of this **** when you're homeless.
0:57.4	You don't know what your life is going to be the next two hours.
1:00.5	You know, it just like swallows you up.
1:03.0	Mom.
1:04.0	Yeah.
1:05.0	You know what you're about.
1:07.0	What do you think about daddy?
1:09.3	We need a house.
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