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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Rebecca says that recent efforts by local policymakers to bring back single room occupancy accommodation have been fairly piecemeal and ineffective.
She points to zoning changes in Washington state and Oregon that have been among the strongest moves to legalize building new SROs.
The mayor of New York, Zoran Mandani, just released a housing plan in May that promised to pass legislation to bring back more shared housing.
Paul Freitag runs the Westside Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing.
That's the organization that operates the building that Vera Hill lives in.
Paul is supportive of allowing more boarding houses, especially for middle-aged and younger people.
Even so, Vera Hill, the 77-year-old former health worker, is happy in hers.
I don't have bad things about living here.
Now's your time to be helped.
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