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Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

From70 Million


Where Housing, Not Jails, Is the Answer to Homelessness

From70 Million

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Nov 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In California, so-called quality of life laws criminalize panhandling, living in cars, and blocking sidewalks. Reporter Sarah McClure chronicles how arresting homeless individuals entangles them in a cycle of poverty and incarceration—and how three groups are breaking the cycle.This episode talks about some troubling details, which involve gun violence. Some listeners may find it disturbing. Sign up for our newsletter today. 
Released:
Nov 9, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (60)

This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by their encounter with jails and to chronicle the progress ground-up efforts have made in diversion, bail reform, recidivism, adoption of technology and other crucial aspects of the move toward decarceration at local levels.