In Search of Home Part 1: How to Prevent Homelessness

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We’re launching a new series, “In Search of Home: Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis” to explore how homelessness happens and what it takes to move people into permanent homes. Our first show takes a look into the many reasons that people end up becoming homeless and how it can be prevented. Research shows that keeping someone housed is far more cost-effective, not to mention less traumatic, than trying to help someone once they lose their home. We’ll hear the experiences of people who have, with help, narrowly avoided losing their housing and talk about proven ways to prevent homelessness. Guests: Jennifer Loving, CEO, Destination: Home - a public-private partnership focused on ending homelessness in Santa Clara County Rob Collinson, assistant professor, Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.9	We've got a new series launching today in Search of Home Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis.
0:59.6	It's going to be four episodes over the next two months about what we know works to keep people in their homes and get them back housed if they do get pushed into homelessness.
1:05.0	Today our focus is on the moment people lose or could lose their housing.
1:10.6	We'll have two experts on talking about what
1:12.8	research here and nationally says about how to prevent homelessness, and we'll hear from a woman
1:17.9	who nearly became homeless but stayed housed and is thriving. It's all coming up next,
1:23.2	right after this news.
1:37.7	Alexis Madrigal here.
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