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Hey, it's Glenn Washington, the host of Snap Judgment, and Snap's bringing something very special.

Join Snap producer Shana Shealy as she follows a small group of homeless people in Oakland, California, for years years documenting their epic battle for their own place on their own terms.

We're excited to finally bring that story to you and recalling it a tiny plot.

A Snap Judgment five-part series about scarcity, survival, community, and the one thing people in this group want it most

control over their own lives. A tiny plot. Episodes are dropping now. Listen right here on Snap Judgment.

Okay, so, first of all, everything I'm about to tell you is all my fault.

If anyone should have known better, I should have known better.

It's just that I've been away from my extended family for a while.

Somehow I forgot the insane survival techniques

you must employ to survive our gatherings.

Plus, I was hungry.

So my aunties announced that it's time to eat

and the backyard barbecue is set out.

I make the mistake of getting up to fix myself some food. No one else gets up. That should

be my first clue. One of my cousins looks at me wide-eyed, shaking his head warningly, but I figure

if he's got something to say, tell me after I grab a paper plate and start heaping potato salad on it.

Then I hear one of my aunties.

That's the potato salad you're going to eat?

Then my other auntie.

Well, that's potato salad on this plate, ain't it?

And I know I've made a rookie error.

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