Homelessness and how to fix it

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Mary Cunningham, vice president of Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy at the Urban Institute, joins Matt for part two of homelessness week to discuss the causes and potential solutions of homelessness. They dive deep into the data surrounding the issue, and take a look at President Trump's claim that homelessness is on the rise. More to explore: Subscribe for free to the Ezra Klein Show, a Vox podcast where Ezra brings you far-reaching conversations about hard problems, big ideas, illuminating theories, and cutting-edge research. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds We are conducting an audience survey to better serve you. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps out the show. Please take our survey here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:12.0	Back before Donald Trump turned homelessness into a weird political hot button,
1:16.0	I had wanted to do an episode on this with a real expert.
1:19.0	So I got in touch with Mary Cunningham from the Urban Institute, then Trump did his thing.
1:23.0	Mary came down, we had a really great conversation, not so much focused on the politics and the antics,
1:28.0	but on what we really know about homelessness and what we can do to help.
1:32.0	But if you love housing as I do, this is a really great discussion of one of the most serious problems we face.
1:38.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:46.0	I'm Matthew Eglaceus, my guest today is Mary Cunningham.
1:49.0	She's a senior fellow and vice president at the Metropolitan Housing Community Center at the Urban Institute.
1:55.0	That's a lot of words for our purposes.
1:59.0	Mary is really knowledgeable about homelessness and homelessness policy, a subject which when I originally scheduled this,
2:06.0	I had intended to be off the news thing that I just happened to think is important and interesting.
2:12.0	President Trump has sort of brought it into the news with a report.
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