From Homeless to Housing Reporter
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 24 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 | Hey everyone. This episode talks in a little bit of detail about depression and suicidal thoughts. |
| 0:08.2 | So at the end of the show, we'll give some resources in case you or someone you love needs a little support. |
| 0:19.6 | If you want to understand the sheer desperation some Angelinos feel when it comes to housing these days, |
| 0:25.3 | just watch this video from a few weeks back. |
| 0:28.3 | Right. |
| 0:29.3 | You cannot get Section 8 vouchers here. |
| 0:32.6 | But who put that information? |
| 0:33.6 | It shows Congresswoman Maxine Waters. She's surrounded by frustrated constituents. |
| 0:40.3 | That all turned up at this event in downtown L.A. |
| 0:43.3 | They thought they could get these rare vouchers for permanent subsidized housing, |
| 0:47.3 | Section 8 vouchers. |
| 0:49.3 | But the vouchers weren't actually available. |
| 0:51.3 | There are no more applications in movement. |
| 0:55.7 | The Congresswoman tells the crowd, listen, there's been a misunderstanding. |
| 1:00.6 | I want everybody to go home. |
| 1:03.0 | And I want you. |
| 1:04.0 | We don't got no home. |
| 1:05.5 | That's why we're here. |
| 1:07.2 | You feel for everyone in that circumstance. |
| 1:11.6 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:12.6 | It's like, where am I going to? That's why I'm here. |
| 1:15.6 | I asked Ethan Ward to talk through this tape with me. |
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