From Homeless to Housing Reporter
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How the experience of living in his car years ago helped reporter Ethan Ward focus his coverage of homelessness and housing in Los Angeles.
Guest: Ethan Ward, unhoused communities reporter for KPCC and LAist.
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| 0:00.0 | There's gift I've ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike. |
| 0:07.0 | It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up |
| 0:12.7 | but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it |
| 0:16.4 | and I was so guest. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now |
| 0:21.6 | so for that one change me a little. |
| 0:23.8 | Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:32.1 | Hey everyone. This episode talks in a little bit of detail about depression and suicidal thoughts |
| 0:38.4 | so at the end of the show we'll give some resources in case you or someone you love needs a little support. |
| 0:45.4 | If you want to understand the sheer desperation some Angelino's feel when it comes to housing these days. |
| 0:55.8 | Just watch this video from a few weeks back. |
| 0:58.8 | It shows congresswoman Maxine Waters. She's surrounded by frustrated constituents that all turned |
| 1:01.8 | up at this event in downtown LA. They thought they could get these rare vouchers for permanent subsidized housing. |
| 1:08.8 | Section 8 vouchers. But the vouchers weren't actually available. |
| 1:15.8 | The congresswoman tells the crowd, listen there's been a misunderstanding. |
| 1:20.8 | I want everybody to be there. |
| 1:25.8 | You feel for everyone in that circumstance. |
| 1:32.8 | It's like where am I going to that's why I'm here. |
| 1:39.8 | I asked Ethan Ward to talk through this tape with me. Ethan reports on homelessness for KPCC, the public radio station in Los Angeles. |
| 1:51.8 | Like everything else gets sent around the internet. |
| 1:56.8 | This video got warped to fit the world view of whoever forwarded it along. |
| 2:01.8 | At one point the congresswoman gets defensive when a constituent presses her for help. |
| 2:05.8 | She says there is no one else in Washington who works for their people any f-ing harder than I do. |
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