The Blue State Homelessness Crisis

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Why do progressive states with lots of wealth often have the worst homelessness problem? Simply put, they stopped building enough affordable housing. Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas and California YIMBY policy director Ned Resnikoff explain the obvious answer to homelessness, debunk myths about drugs and mental health, and spell out what needs to change in government policy and neighborhood sentiment.

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Read Jerusalem’s story, “The Obvious Answer to Homelessness”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-democrats-causes/672224/
Find out why homelessness rates are so much better in Houston than Los Angeles: http://cayimby.org/housing-first/
Learn about the relationship between inequality and homelessness: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716220981864
Find out who turns up to community input meetings and how that impacts local policies: https://www.politicsofhousing.com/research/neighborhood_defenders_handout.pdf
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0:00.0	Lemonada.
0:24.6	This is in the bubble with Andy Slavitt.
0:27.5	Reach Me at Andy at lemonadamedia.com.
0:30.4	I've been loving seeing your emails and with your permission now I might read some of
0:35.4	them on the air.
0:36.4	So if you have questions, thoughts about the show, I'd love to hear from you and we'll
0:42.5	talk about them on the air.
0:44.3	So what do you think about the first thing that pops into your head when you think about
0:47.4	homelessness?
0:49.6	What's the first image you get?
0:51.9	Is it a man with a sign at a stoplight asking for money?
0:56.6	Is it a veteran on a park bench?
0:59.5	Is it a tent encampment with a bunch of messy things lying around?
1:06.4	I'm going to ask you to forget what you know about homelessness for the time being because
1:14.5	it's not that those images aren't true.
1:19.0	Of course we see them, they are a reality.
1:22.8	But for the dozens of people that we may encounter who are homeless, there are actually thousands
1:29.4	more and hundreds more every day that we don't see.
1:34.5	You see they're not walking in the street, they're living in cars.
1:39.4	They are couch surfing.
1:42.0	They are cramming in with another family in their apartment and moving from time to time.
1:48.5	They're living in very cheap motels.
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