Bay Area Suburbs Struggle With Rising Homelessness

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In September, Alameda County declared a state of emergency on homelessness to address growing numbers of unhoused people. Suburban and rural areas throughout California are seeing more homelessness, according to a recent study from UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation. Homelessness outside of big cities can be less visible and requires a different approach since towns and suburbs often lack the resources and infrastructure that larger cities have to help unhoused people. We’ll talk about what’s driving homelessness in Bay Area suburbs and what’s being done about it. Guests: Kerry Abbott, director, Office of Homeless Care and Coordination for Alameda County Ryan Finnigan, associate research director, Terner Center for Housing Innovation - helping design and execute the center’s research agenda. His research has focused on homelessness in California, and poverty and social policy both in the United States overall. Jennifer Loving, executive director, Destination: Home - a public-private partnership focused on ending homelessness in Santa Clara County. Aubrey Merriman, CEO, LifeMoves - a homeless services provider for San Mateo County Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. The avatars of homelessness are downtown San Francisco, some pieces of Oakland, maybe a few
1:05.7	spots in San Jose, homelessness is almost always presented as an urban problem. But beyond the Bay Area's biggest
1:13.7	cities, homelessness has been growing too. Poverty has been increasing far faster in suburbs than
1:19.0	in cities for years. And it's time we got a better handle on the people who are unhoused in the
1:24.3	rest of the Bay Area and what resources those places have to help people get off
1:28.6	the streets. We're talking about homelessness in the places we don't normally talk about. That's
1:33.7	coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. The flip side of gentrification in which wealthier people have moved into urban neighborhoods is that poor people have been pushed out of urban centers and towards the periphery of expensive places like
2:02.0	our Bay Area.
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