In Search of Home Part 2: What Happens When Someone Loses Their Housing

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Forum is continuing our series, “In Search of Home: Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis” with a look into what happens when people lose their housing. Each year in the Bay Area, an estimated 44,000 people will become homeless, according to All Home, a Bay Area nonprofit. Some find a new place to live quickly, while others shuffle through couch-surfing, sleeping outside, staying at shelters, living in cars or a tent. We’ll talk about the early stages of losing housing and the interventions that can help keep homelessness “brief and rare” as policy experts say, and head off chronic homelessness. Guests: Vanessa Rancaño, housing affordability reporter, NPR Sharon Cornu, executive director, St. Mary's Center - a provider of transitional housing and other services for seniors and families in Oakland Markos Gonzalez, associate director of programs community outreach, Bay Area Community Services (BACS) - a provider of behavioral health and homelessness services Keanna Ward, Bay Area resident, is formerly homeless Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.9	This morning we're looking at a crucial moment for anyone living in a precarious housing situation.
1:07.8	It's the moment when someone loses their housing and ends up homeless.
1:12.4	We know statistically that the fastest growing group of newly homeless people is seniors. We know emotionally that no matter how it happened or who it happened to, it's terrifying.
1:19.5	So today, the latest installment of our series in Search of Home Solutions for the Homelessness
1:25.1	Crisis, we focus on helping people bounce back when they lose the
1:29.6	roof over their heads.
1:30.9	It's all coming up next, right after this news.
1:47.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:55.7	Here on the show, we're presenting the next in our series In Search of Home Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis.
2:01.8	Today we're focusing on the heartbreaking moment when someone loses their housing and finds themselves homeless.
2:07.1	They might be experiencing domestic violence or having mental health problems or they might simply not have the money for rent. But those first nights when someone ends up without a roof
2:12.4	over their heads can be a turning point in a person's life. If they can get back sheltered quickly,
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