Kevin Fagan Takes A Deep, Immersive Look At Surviving Homelessness

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan spent more than three decades reporting on everything from wildfires to serial killers but he has been especially dogged in his coverage of the city’s seemingly intractable homelessness problem. His new book, “The Lost and the Found,” draws on his extensive, immersive reporting to tell the stories of two homeless people – how they ended up on the streets of San Francisco and how they left. We talk with Fagan about his detailed portrait of what it is like to survive without shelter and why it’s so difficult to resolve an issue that has long plagued our region. Guests: Kevin Fagan, author of “The Lost and The Found;" longtime, award-winning journalist and former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle specializing in homelessness and serial killers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:25.5	I know you've heard many, many stories about homelessness.
1:29.7	We've probably done 30 shows over the past couple years. There's tons of other reporting,
1:34.0	and we all have our own experiences too. But even if you think you've been hardened to the human
1:38.9	realities underlying our societal homelessness problem, Kevin Fagan's new book, The Lost and the Found,
1:45.7	Could and Should Cut Through All the Layers of Armor that we've put on to deal with the tragedy.
1:51.8	Fagan's been reporting on homelessness for 25 years, and he joins us to talk about his book
1:55.9	and what he's learned from all that time in the streets. It's coming up next right after this news. Alexis Madrigal here. We've got a little pledge break going right now, so you get a bonus
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