Feed Drop: Real Good Podcast

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4.9 • 14.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This is a special presentation of the podcast Real Good by US Bank. This episode features Nancy Halpern Ibrahim, Executive Director of Esperanza Community Housing Corporation. Nancy joins hosts Faith and Greg to discuss advocating for housing and public healthcare across decades. Halpern Ibrahim insists housing and healthcare are human rights. She has sought out organizing opportunities for public health from the Middle East to Southern Los Angeles, and has helped build programs that train community health advocates, restrict pollution, and give rise to James Beard acknowledged restaurants. Our hosts and guest explore how dedicated service can lead to noticeable change.

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0:00.0	We're going to do a little something different in the feed today.
0:03.8	We're sharing an episode of a podcast called Real Good by US Bank.
0:09.6	Every season Real Good seeks to tell stories of people putting in the work.
0:14.4	It's a podcast that shows us that.
0:16.5	While the world is an imperfect place, there are people out there trying to make it better.
0:21.3	They put out four really great seasons and they just
0:24.4	started their fifth. You're about to hear a clip from the fifth season. If you
0:29.4	like what you heard, go listen and subscribe to Real Good wherever you get your podcast.
0:37.0	This is Real Good by U.S. Bank, a podcast about helpers.
0:43.1	I think that none of us are really doing quite enough about housing right now.
0:48.2	I think at least in terms of the city I live in, we suffer from the fact that property rights are prized more than housing
0:58.1	is considered a fundamental human right. There's a political will issue there that allows people to continue to live in poverty.
1:06.9	I'm Faith Sayley. Nancy Halper and Ibrahim is a real life superhero. She's spent her life helping people
1:14.2	in underserved and underprivileged circumstances.
1:17.4	She's advocated for health care for Palestinian women,
1:20.9	worked with the deaf community among displaced Syrians, and spent the last 28 years
1:26.4	fighting for equitable housing and health care in one of the country's largest cities.
1:31.3	Her current work at Esperanza Community Housing is funded in
1:34.9	part through grants provided by US Bank. Nancy joins us today to tell us about her
1:40.6	journey to the belief that health care and housing are human rights,
1:45.2	what it's like to live through a revolution, and especially her work with Esperanza.
1:50.7	She joins us from California where she now lives.
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