Ep. 380 - Sick Empire: Homelessness & Rent Tension

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

The Coronavirus pandemic has left staggering numbers of the New York City's workers out of a paycheck. Rent has become a problem for people who never had difficulty with their rents before the pandemic. On top of that, the city’s most vulnerable population, the people without homes, are left to suffer in a deafening silence. This episode of Sick Empire is an investigation on what homelessness and rent tension look like on the ground in NYC.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, all week this week we're actually playing some of our favorite episodes from
0:06.9	other podcast series that we have at the North Star.
0:10.3	And if you didn't know it, the breakdown is not our only podcast series.
0:13.9	We have Woke at Work, Mary to the Movement, the Momentum Advisor Show, America the Voiceless,
0:20.3	and Sick Empire, which you're going to hear from today.
0:23.1	You can search any podcast platform for all six of our podcast series.
0:28.8	And on this episode of Sick Empire, we were at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic.
0:35.4	When we started the first season of Sick Empire, thousands of New York City's workers
0:40.1	were left without a paycheck.
0:42.2	Rent became a problem for so many people who had never had difficulty with their rent
0:46.7	before the pandemic.
0:48.4	People without homes were left to suffer in silence.
0:53.0	The second episode of the first season is entitled Homelessness and Rent Tension.
0:59.4	And it investigates what homelessness and rent tension looks like in New York City
1:04.2	during a pandemic.
1:05.8	It's a brilliant, brilliant episode.
1:08.0	I can't wait for you to hear it today.
1:10.1	The breakdown.
1:13.1	I don't know if I've ever told this story before.
1:20.6	When I first moved to New York, I was homeless.
1:24.6	I didn't move to New York homeless.
1:27.2	I had a friend who I was staying with in Brooklyn.
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