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Los Angeles Confronts Its Housing Crisis

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Homelessness in Los Angeles isn’t a new problem. But it has become a bigger problem. And it’s gotten really easy to see.  Guests: Theo Henderson, host of the We the Unhoused podcast. Emily Alpert Reyes, City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Times.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I could introduce you to Theo Henderson a couple of different ways. I could tell you that he's

0:38.0

a podcast host like me. I could say that he used to be a high school English teacher,

0:43.7

that he still misses seeing that look on a kid's face when they really get something for the

0:49.2

first time. Or I could tell you he's homeless. And for the last seven years, he spent most

0:56.2

nights bedding down in a playground in downtown LA, Chinatown. And I chewed her some of the

1:02.7

kids. Of course I get balloons or I like how you say, of course I bring balloons. Like

1:09.6

I don't bring balloons. I know. The way was an outreach way of humanizing me as well

1:17.3

as getting the community to be educated about what a thing on how is this. Theo prefers

1:22.3

the term unhoused to homeless. He's noticed that is the number of people on the street in

1:27.8

LA as grown. Homeless is become like a slur. That's why he started a podcast. He calls it

1:34.9

We The Unhoused.

1:36.4

Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of Weezy and House. This episode is

1:42.4

He wants to change the way people see him. And for the most part, many of the community

1:47.4

has been very kind to me looking after me or telling me when it's going to rain to prepare

1:53.0

myself and things like that. It sounds like you almost launched a good

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