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Relational Poverty, the Homelessness Industrial Complex, and Ending Homelessness

Forward

Humanity Forward Productions

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

What does it take to reconnect 800+ unhoused people with their friends and family? How does cash relief help? Kevin Adler, founder of Miracle Messages, sits down with Andrew to talk about relational poverty, the Homelessness Industrial Complex, and how we can end homelessness in America once and for all. Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GihAi01jTcg Follow Kevin Adler: https://twitter.com/kevinfadler | https://www.kevinfadler.com/ Follow Andrew Yang: https://andrewyang.com | https://twitter.com/andrewyang To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This week on forward.

0:04.0

I felt more and more as I did work around homelessness that it was this highly individualized disaster,

0:11.0

this non-shared trauma.

0:13.4

Really, like everyone just went through an earthquake or a flood or a fire,

0:17.4

but no one knows that the other person just went through the same thing.

0:21.2

We would never look at each other as like housed people as a primary

0:25.0

identity and yet we've defined an entire group of people by their lack of one

0:29.9

physical need which is the homeless.

0:32.6

Given the precarity of 40% of people not knowing where they get $400

0:38.4

for an unexpected emergency,

0:40.1

it's actually surprising that we don't have more people experiencing homelessness in this country.

0:44.1

Like what's keeping half the country from experiencing homelessness. Hey everyone this week on the

0:56.8

on the podcast I interview an incredible guy named Kevin Adler who started miracle messages and he wrote a new book called When We Walk By.

1:06.7

It's about homelessness. He spent the last 10 years or so reconnecting 800 homeless people to their loved ones and families.

1:14.2

It's uplifting and invigorating.

1:18.0

What else is going on this week?

1:20.0

There's a guy named Dean Phillips

1:21.0

who's running for president that I am having a lot of fun with because most of you know I don't think Joe Biden is the right choice to run in 24. I think he'd lose to Trump and the Democratic Party really should

1:37.2

build some better candidates. If you want to see what I've been thinking

1:41.4

about Dean Phillips go to Andrew Yang

1:43.0

dot com slash blog or just actually just go to Andrew Yang

1:46.7

dot com because that's where it is. Also this week it looks like the SAG After

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