Bunker USA: The fatal crisis America is ignoring

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Over half a million people in America are homeless – and this figure keeps increasing. How can this crisis – which is resulting in deaths across the nation – be solved? President Joe Biden wants to eradicate homelessness by 2025. Can he? Ann Marie Staudenmaier is senior legal counsel for the Washington Legal Clinic for The Homeless. She sits down in The Bunker with Chris Jones to discuss why the US is failing. “This is a problem across the country because of government policies evicting people and not being able to afford to get back into housing.” – Ann Marie Staudenmaier “I’ve seen so many government proclamations over the years, and the only way to solve this problem is to put your money where your mouth is.” – Ann Marie Staudenmaier www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Chris Jones. Audio production: Simon Williams. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:19.8	Now when you picture Washington DC maybe you think of the White House or the Washington Monument items of
1:25.8	grandeur but the district is way more than that it has a much darker side
1:30.6	especially when it comes to the issue of homelessness.
1:34.0	Thousands of people in DC are without homes.
1:36.9	And there's a story I could there as a journalist that has really stuck with me ever since I left.
1:42.1	And that's the story of the clearing of
1:43.7	McPherson Square now that's a small park on the doorstep of the White House and in
1:48.9	February the district's authorities came to evict the residents, many of whom had been there for months, maybe even years.
1:55.7	There was one person there called Daniel who had been there for just about two years and he was hauled out of this park. I watched as their possessions were dumped into the back of a truck and
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