Going for Broke: Change of Address

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🗓️ 3 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

How we live is indelibly intertwined with the care and empathy we give to each other. What if we put care into helping Americans find homes and build dwellings, into keeping their bodies and minds sound, and finding meaningful and well-paid work? In this three part series, "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project bring you real life stories about economic struggle in our time, as well as ideas for solutions.

In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke" all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic human right. But in America, it can be hard to come by.

Original Air Date: November 05, 2022

Interviews In This Hour:
When the walk home from school keeps changing — Creating a compassionate geography — More supportive housing can start with sharing space. And upending assumptions. — The infrastructure of care

Guests:
Bobbi Dempsey, David Harvey, Annabelle Gurwitch, Justin Garrett Moore

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0:00.0	Hey, friends, it's Anne.
0:04.8	Today on to the best of our knowledge, we've got the first episode of a new series, Going for Broke.
0:10.4	It's a co-production with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and I'm very excited to say it is hosted by journalist Ray Suarez.
0:18.0	Hey, Ray.
0:19.1	Hi, Anne.
0:20.3	So tell us about this hour. Well, the first thing to say is that
0:24.0	America's suffering from what I would call a crisis of care. We live in one of the wealthiest
0:29.2	countries in the world and yet millions of us struggle to make rent and put food on the table.
0:34.8	I mean, you can live here, do everything, quote unquote, right, and still find yourself living on the table. I mean, you can live here, do everything, quote-unquote, right, and still
0:39.3	find yourself living on the edge. It's happened to me. It's almost certainly happened to people
0:44.6	you know. Today's episode is about housing insecurity. It's called change of address.
0:58.1	Music of address. From WPR.
1:02.6	It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:04.3	I'm Anne Strange Champs.
1:10.3	I'm Anne Strange Champs. If you know where you're going to sleep tonight, if it's a place you've lived for a while, where you feel safe and secure, imagine what your life would be like if that was not the case
1:29.4	and if it never had been. When I was a child, there were quite a few times when I would leave school
1:42.5	at the end of the day and start walking for a while
1:46.0	and then realized I was going in the wrong direction.
1:53.0	Or I would walk out of school and just stand there,
1:58.0	frozen, unsure where to go.
2:09.1	Because we moved so many times that sometimes I could not remember where I lived.
2:13.7	This is Bobby Dempsey.
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