Today we travel to a future where housing is guaranteed and provided to everybody.
Guests:
- Amanda Vail — Director of communications at Plymouth Housing
- Dr. Sam Tsemberis — Founder of Pathways Housing First and author of Housing First Manual: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness and Addiction
- Dr. Ivis Garcia Zambrana — Assistant Professor of City & Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah
- Tara Raghuveer — Director of KC Tenants, director of the Homes Guarantee campaign at People’s Action
- Dr. Daniel Aldana Cohen — Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania & co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green Deal
- Carroll Fife — councilmember-elect for Oakland’s District 3, co-founder of Moms for Housing, director of Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Oakland
Voice Actors:
- Intro Phone Tree Voice — Brett Tubbs
- Amy — Ashley Kellem: Instagram, Website
- Maia — Shara Kirby
Further Reading:
- United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
- State of Homelessness: 2020 Edition
- United Nations Expert Describes Oakland and California’s Homeless Crisis as ‘Cruel’
- Berkeley dismantles homeless encampment outside Old City Hall, one arrested
- Homeless? Unhoused? Unsheltered? Word choice matters when reporting on Oaklanders who don’t have permanent housing
- How to Use Respectful, Instead of Degrading, Language Around Homelessness
- Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness
- Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program
- Housing First Manual: The Pathways Model to End Homelessness for People with Mental Illness and Addiction
- The Shockingly Simple, Surprisingly Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness
- How Utah reduced homelessness by more than 90 percent
- Why Do Homeless Families Exit and Return the Homeless Shelter? Factors Affecting the Risk of Family Homelessness in Salt Lake County (Utah, United States) as a Case Study
- Why Housing First?
- America’s Largest Health Insurer Is Giving Apartments to Homeless People
- Phoenix still criminalizes homelessness, despite court ruling, protesters say
- A Pilot Study of the Impact of Housing First–Supported Housing for Intensive Users of Medical Hospitalization and Sobering Services
- Trump administration proposes reversal of homeless policy
- 7 Myths About Homelessness
- 40% of Americans don’t have $400 in the bank for emergency expenses: Federal Reserve
- What Would ‘Housing as a Human Right’ Look Like in California?
- Homes Guarantee Briefing Book (PDF)
- Homes for All Act of 2019
- Bernie Sanders and AOC Unveil a Green New Deal for Public Housing
- Remembering Red Vienna
- A Green New Deal for American Public Housing Communities
- A Green New Deal for Housing
- The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent
- Sustainable Housing Europe (SHE) – Moving from Extraordinary to Ordinary
- Oakland, S.F. neighborhoods fastest gentrifying in U.S.
- History of the Y Foundation
- GOOD TIMES by Lucille Clifton.
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