How Bay Area Homelessness Compares Globally

Bay Curious

KQED

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4.9 • 999 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Many people in our community are experiencing homelessness -- about 35,000 throughout the Bay Area at last count. Matthew Schmitz was shocked by how wealth and poverty exist side by side when he moved to the Mission District of San Francisco. He wanted to know how homelessness here compares to other places around the world. *This audio has been updated to correct an error. A previous version misstated the number of NYC public school children experiencing homelessness. We regret the error. Additional Reading From New York to Helsinki: What the Bay Area Can Learn When Addressing Homelessness Sold Out podcast: Rethinking Housing in America One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels Reported by Erin Baldassari and Molly Solomon. Bay Curious is made by Katrina Schwartz, Suzie Racho, Katie McMurran and Erika Kelly. Additional support from Erika Aguilar, Jessica Placzek, Kyana Moghadam, Paul Lancour, Carly Severn, Ethan Lindsey, Vinnee Tong and Don Clyde.

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0:00.0	From K-QED. It's hard to live in the Bay Area and not notice how many people in our community are living on the streets.
0:10.0	And homelessness is expected to get worse because of the pandemic.
0:14.3	When he moved to San Francisco's mission district,
0:16.4	our question asker this week, Matthew Schmitz,
0:18.8	was shocked by how much wealth exists side by side
0:22.2	with extreme poverty. It doesn't seem to
0:25.1	make sense. It feels dystopian. My question was how does homelessness in
0:31.1	San Francisco compare to other major cities around the world.
0:35.0	Matthew's question won the October voting round.
0:38.0	Today on the show an examination of homelessness globally We look at how other cities and
0:44.3	countries tackle the issue of homelessness and what the Bay Area could learn from
0:48.5	other places about how to solve the problem. I'm Katrina Schwartz and this is Bay Curious is brought to you by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, still family owned, operated, and argued over.
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1:20.0	Here to help us put Bay Area Homelessness context are KQED Housing Reporters Aaron Baldissari and Molly Solomon.
1:27.6	Hey Katrina!
1:28.6	Hey, thanks for having us.
1:30.2	It's great to have you.
1:31.2	Okay, so Aaron, let's start with you. First off, how did you even
1:34.7	set out to answer this question? I mean, how did you choose the places that you were going to compare
1:39.5	to the Bay Area? Well, you know, right off the bat, we knew this wasn't going to be an easy question to answer because there is no single universal definition of who counts as being homeless.
1:51.0	And you know, that sounds like a really simple thing to define, but
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