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Courtney Harrell (Host)

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1128 total appearances

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What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

She searched and searched for something in her budget, sleeping on the floor of friend's house after friend's house while she did. And then she finally found an apartment she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

She searched and searched for something in her budget, sleeping on the floor of friend's house after friend's house while she did. And then she finally found an apartment she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

She searched and searched for something in her budget, sleeping on the floor of friend's house after friend's house while she did. And then she finally found an apartment she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

But her application was rejected because it turned out that the private equity firm that owned her last apartment had evicted her, without her even knowing it, when she didn't pay rent on her burned-down apartment. She said it was like having a Scarlet E that made it that much more difficult to find a place she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

But her application was rejected because it turned out that the private equity firm that owned her last apartment had evicted her, without her even knowing it, when she didn't pay rent on her burned-down apartment. She said it was like having a Scarlet E that made it that much more difficult to find a place she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

But her application was rejected because it turned out that the private equity firm that owned her last apartment had evicted her, without her even knowing it, when she didn't pay rent on her burned-down apartment. She said it was like having a Scarlet E that made it that much more difficult to find a place she could afford.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

I mean, so the system is fit into a very old definition of homelessness so that we can tackle this in the very few ways that we know how or you're on your own.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

I mean, so the system is fit into a very old definition of homelessness so that we can tackle this in the very few ways that we know how or you're on your own.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

I mean, so the system is fit into a very old definition of homelessness so that we can tackle this in the very few ways that we know how or you're on your own.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Is this new?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Is this new?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Is this new?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and you're saying, too, we have these ideas about homelessness as a culture. And is that why when you were talking about Celeste being hesitant to take on this homelessness label, like, do you think is that what that's about, that people don't want to be seen as I am broken people?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and you're saying, too, we have these ideas about homelessness as a culture. And is that why when you were talking about Celeste being hesitant to take on this homelessness label, like, do you think is that what that's about, that people don't want to be seen as I am broken people?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and you're saying, too, we have these ideas about homelessness as a culture. And is that why when you were talking about Celeste being hesitant to take on this homelessness label, like, do you think is that what that's about, that people don't want to be seen as I am broken people?

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and it means that none of us are safe.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and it means that none of us are safe.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

Well, and it means that none of us are safe.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

After the break, we'll talk about how we got here and why, housed or unhoused, everyone is feeling the strain.

What We Spend
America's Working Homeless

After the break, we'll talk about how we got here and why, housed or unhoused, everyone is feeling the strain.