The Housing Fix
The FRONTLINE Dispatch
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4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2017
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Millions of Americans can’t afford rent and only a quarter of those who need government help get it. What happens to everyone else? For many, it means they live in squalor. But figuring out who’s responsible is harder than you think. In this episode of the FRONTLINE DISPATCH, NPR correspondent Laura Sullivan heads to Dallas where the city, low income residents and a prominent landlord sometimes described as a slumlord, become the moving pieces in a century-and-a-half old problem.
This episode was done in collaboration with NPR.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rainey Aronson, executive producer of the PBS series Front Line and you're listening to the frontline This time the Housing Fix, a collaboration with our colleagues at NPR. |
| 0:17.0 | The Front Line Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation Journalism Initiative, |
| 0:21.0 | committed to excellence. |
| 0:23.3 | The Frontline Dispatch is made possible by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence |
| 0:27.9 | in journalism, and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hagler. |
| 0:34.0 | Support for Frontline Dispatch comes from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, |
| 0:38.0 | dedicated to providing compassionate care and cancer |
| 0:43.0 | when you hear the word cancer, their team is ready. |
| 0:46.0 | Learn more at mass general.org |
| 0:48.0 | slash cancer. |
| 0:50.0 | This episode was reported by Laura Sullivan, an NPR investigative correspondent who's worked with us at Frontline over the years. |
| 1:00.0 | Hi Laura. |
| 1:01.0 | Hi, Rainey. So I'm really excited to be here and talk about this story, but first I really want to play |
| 1:06.5 | this piece of tape. |
| 1:07.6 | This is from a community meeting in West Dallas. |
| 1:10.7 | This is a room full of tenants and their landlord. |
| 1:13.2 | The man wanted me to give him access to the house. |
| 1:16.2 | Why did you come and talk to us and tell us what was going on? |
| 1:19.2 | Why did y'all fix our stuff like we add it out to? |
| 1:23.0 | So now we're at $50,000 units in dollars. |
| 1:28.0 | $14,000 was sitting down. |
| 1:30.0 | That's a lot of angry people. |
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