Ending Homelessness in America Feels Impossible. Is It?
b"There are more people homeless in America today than at any other time in the last 17 years. Those numbers might have gotten a lot worse during the pandemic were it not for millions of dollars in federal funds for emergency housing. That money\\u2019s all dried up now. In the early 2000s, many of these cities adopted \\u201c10-year plans to end homelessness,\\u201d buoyed by a push from the White House. But that hasn\\u2019t happened. Ending homelessness in America feels impossible. Is It? \\n\\nIn this podcast episode, we talk to someone who experienced homelessness in Denver and now works to solve it. We also talk to the man leading successful efforts to solve homelessness in Houston, a researcher who's studied why we aren't building more housing, and a tech philanthropist in San Francisco with an innovative approach to the problem. \\n\\nPodcast Guests: \\nCuica Montoya, senior director of homelessness programs at the Colorado Village Collaborative \\n\\nMarc Eichenbaum, special assistant to the mayor for homelessness initiative in Houston\\n\\nKatherine Levine Einstein, professor of political science at Boston University\\n\\nElizabeth Funk, founder and CEO of DignityMoves"