Season 2 Episode 2: The magic key to government
The Ashoka Systems Change Podcast
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The Importance of Community Organizing
In 2012, I met Roseanne Hagerty, another Shoka Fellow. She's just the most amazing social entrepreneur and she's working on homelessness. Around that time she was thinking about applying her approach to running supportive housing for formerly homeless people to a neighbourhood in Brooklyn of about 60,000 people. Brownsville has suffered from the highest crime rates, the highest infant mortality rates, school dropout rates,. incarceration rates in the city. It's been really, really troubled and so she decided to take on this area. In 2019, when I reviewed what we had done over the decade and what we had achieved in the 135 cities we have been working with, as part of the research project
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