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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

Why You Need to Say Yes to Affordable Housing

Aug 14, 2023
46:21

America’s homelessness crisis is getting worse, despite the billions spent each year to fix it. Single family home prices continue to rise. In California alone, fewer than 20% of households can even qualify to buy a house. While the problem seems overwhelming, viable solutions are actually within reach, especially if people stop saying, “Not in my backyard."

Andy is joined by Tomiquia Moss, founder and CEO of All Home CA; and Tommy Newman, vice president of engagement and activation at United Way of Greater Los Angeles. They talk about humanizing unhoused people and about streamlining affordable housing construction to fill the state’s multimillion-unit shortage.

Keep up with Andy on Post and Twitter @ASlavitt.

Follow Tomiquia Moss @meeksmoss and Tommy Newman @tpnewman on Twitter.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode: 

  • Learn about the work All Home is doing in California’s Bay Area to disrupt the cycles of poverty and homelessness.
  • Visit United Way of Greater Los Angeles to learn how they’re working with communities to find pathways out of poverty and homelessness.
  • Find vaccines, masks, testing, treatments, and other resources in your community: https://www.covid.gov/
  • Order Andy’s book, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response”: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250770165 

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