City of Tents: Veterans Row

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In one of LA’s fanciest neighborhoods, homeless military veterans erect a tent city. While some volunteer to help the vets, others want to see the encampment demolished and its occupants moved along. The camp sits along a fence to the local VA hospital, the place where services for them are offered. But some don’t qualify or can’t get into their programs. Others choose to remain on the street. But if the vets don’t find another place to live, the sheriff will ensure the tents come down. From KCRW comes “City of Tents: Veterans Row.” Reporter Anna Scott brings us into a world where the desires of activists, officials, neighbors, and vets themselves are often at cross purposes. It examines the larger issue of homelessness and the half-measures employed to solve the problem.

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0:00.0	For exclusive podcasts and more, sign up at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:06.3	I'm Rebecca LaVoy and this is Crime Riders on.
0:23.6	Crime Riders on is the original True Crime Review podcast that digs in a true crime,
0:28.2	pop culture, other podcasts. And on this episode, a group of unhoused veterans create an encampment
0:34.8	for their fellow servicemen right next to a VA hospital. Are the goals of the government,
0:41.1	the neighbors, and the vets aligned? We'll review the podcast from KCRW, City of Tents,
0:48.0	Veterans Row. Joining me to get that done and more is True Crime author, TV journalist,
0:53.6	and host of these are their stories podcast. My husband, I love of my life, Kevin Flynn.
0:58.4	Hello, Kevin. Hello, Rebecca. I'm enjoying your haircut, Kevin. Oh, yeah. Check
1:02.1	the way the fade here. Get this fade. I think that Rob would enjoy it. Right, right into my beard.
1:09.2	Look at that. It's super. That's not a thing when men notice. It just isn't. Okay.
1:13.1	It's not a thing. Anybody listening to this notice. You also have to think, by the way,
1:17.7	like beard maintenance is like a truly male thing. It just is. I just is. Well, unless you're in
1:24.2	the circus lady, also where this is our captain of all things cynical, the author of the City
1:31.0	trilogy of novels, host of the Strange Arrivals podcast and our Patreon deep dive book club podcast,
1:37.6	host Toby ball. Hello, Toby. Hey, Rebecca. You kind of caught me off guard by taking me out. I know,
1:42.9	but there's a reason why I did that because filling in for the vacationing Laura Bricker is our
1:49.6	very special guest, our handsome line editor, Livy Burdette. Hello, Livy. Hello. I cannot believe
1:58.1	you're here. How does it feel? I can't wait for everyone to judge how my voice is.
2:05.9	Well, I promise we're not going to get any emails or feedback about your laugh. Yeah, try not
2:10.4	to laugh. You'll be fine. No, it only happens about me. I am like your pick and roll. I am like the
2:15.9	person making the left in front of you in the lane. Like, you're going to be fine. You're going to be
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