Waylon Wong
speaker
548 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 6d ago
Waylon Wong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The past.
That's after the break.
On the Upper West Side of Manhattan, there is a big brick building that offers clues about how to bring down homelessness.
This building is seven stories tall and really wide.
It takes up the whole block length.
On one of the floors lives a resident of 15 years.
I'm not going to ask you how old you are.
There's also an artwork that says, in all capital letters, FIERCE.
You have to share a bathroom?
Vera Hill lives in what's called a single-room occupancy building, or an SRO.
It's like a dorm, or a long-term hotel room, or a boarding house.
And today we're going to use those terms interchangeably.
Vera started her career at the Mount Sinai Health System in the admitting office before she was promoted to supervisor and then manager before becoming a nurse aide.
But in her 60s, she struggled to pay New York rent.
Euclid Hall is run by a nonprofit called the Westside Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing.
It operates 22 properties across New York and provides social support.
Not all the buildings are dorm style.
Most have studios, you know, self-contained units of kitchens and bathrooms.
But Euclid Hall is divided up into single rooms because New York still has these remnants from what used to be a common form of housing.
Yeah, one in 10 people was staying in one.
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