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The Homeless Industrial Complex / Tracy Rosenthal

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Chuck is back! He welcomes writer, activist, and co-founder of the Los Angeles Tenants Union Tracy Rosenthal, who wrote the New Republic article "Inside L.A.'s Homeless Industrial Complex" Also: A new Rotten History, and a new Hangover Cure, and a new Question from Hell! https://newrepublic.com/article/166383/los-angeles-echo-park-homeless-industrial-complex

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So some of you may remember back in early February,

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before I became incredibly ill,

1:31.2

when we're fortunate enough to have a discussion with

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de Anira Navaras Martinez whose research focuses on the role of the state

1:39.3

and homelessness and housing precarity and informality.

1:43.0

De Niro was on the show to talk about her radical housing journal's study,

1:48.0

homelessness in Southern California, street level encounters with the state and the structural

1:53.7

violence of performative productivity. While commending those working to

1:59.3

help the homeless on the street level, she also described how their work can become performative

2:05.3

that is giving the appearance of fighting homelessness but within a system

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that rewards what our guest today sees as LA's homeless industrial complex, a complex that is not

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