Solving the Homelessness Problem in San Francisco

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🗓️ 9 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this Saturday edition of the Daily Signal Podcast, Mary Theroux discusses her work of trying to improve the plight of the homeless in San Francisco with methods that attempt to heal the problems in their lives that have led them to such a condition. She notes that the Housing First policy approach that treats the homeless as if they just need housing doesn't work. Theroux observes "this one size fits all policy that the federal government is imposing, does not address the underlying issues. So people may get into housing, but they're still traumatized, they may still be addicted, they may still be suffering for mental illness. And so they'll likely fall out of housing. They're not prepared to live independently. Plus they may be living in an apartment complex with other people who have very serious problems, and it turns out to be a very unpleasant place to live. So they'll leave as the streets are better." We're going to need better solutions and this conversation highlights many of those. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to this special Saturday edition of the Daily Signal Podcast.
0:12.0	I'm Richard Reich, Director of the Simon Center for American Studies.
0:17.0	Today we're talking with Mary Thoreau, Executive Director of the Independent Institute
0:20.8	about a new documentary she directed called Beyond Homeless.
0:31.0	Hello, this is Richard Reich and welcome to this Saturday edition of the Daily Signal Podcast.
0:41.0	Today I'm talking with Mary Thoreau about a new documentary she helped produce entitled Beyond Homeless.
0:48.0	Finding Hope.
0:49.0	Mary Thoreau is chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Institute.
0:55.0	She is also managing director of Lightning Ventures LP San Francisco by investment firm and vice president of the CS Lewis Society.
1:03.0	And she is also heavily involved with the Salvation Army in California.
1:08.0	She has extensive business experience and riding experience and was formerly the president and the CEO of San Francisco Grocery Express.
1:19.0	Mary, thank you so much for coming out of the program.
1:22.0	Thank you so much for inviting me.
1:24.0	So Mary, this documentary Beyond Homeless.
1:27.0	Finding Hope focuses heavily on the homeless situation in San Francisco.
1:34.0	There's been a lot of national press coverage of this problem in San Francisco.
1:39.0	From a lot of different angles, I've read about it.
1:42.0	I think people have read about different aspects of why there's a homeless situation, why it's so extensive.
1:50.0	And also a lot of the fallout and negative externalities for the city of San Francisco.
1:55.0	You've been in the Bay Area since the mid 1970s.
1:59.0	How did you get interested in this problem?
2:02.0	Well, I first got involved because of my involvement with the Salvation Army.
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