Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in California

08/12/24 • 59 min

Part I. Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California

Guest: Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, She is the Director of the Principal Investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH).

Conducted by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), (CASPEH) is the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s. It provides a comprehensive look at the causes and consequences of homelessness in California and recommends policy changes to shape programs in response. #CAHomelessnessStudy

Part II. The Ineffectiveness of SF’s Homeless Policies

Guest: Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning investigative journalist based in San Francisco. He has covered the homelessness crisis in the last few years. His latest article in 48Hills is Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign: Stealing people’s possessions and moving them around town solves nothing—but it makes for mayoral politics.

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Part I. Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California

Part II. The Ineffectiveness of SF’s Homeless Policies

Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash

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Crisis in the Middle East: Israel and the Axis of Resistance

Guest: Assaf Kfoury is a mathematician, computer scientist, and political activist. An Arab American of Lebanese-Palestinian background who grew up in Beirut and Cairo. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. He recently wrote Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe published by the International Union of Scientists.

He is editor of Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. He acted as translator for Noam Chomsky in their visits to the region, which included meetings with Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

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Are Liberals Intolerant at Conservatives?

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Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books including his latest, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.

Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is the Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research focuses in the areas of American politics and political psychology. Her most recent book is Respect and Loathing in American Democracy, co-authored with political theorist Jeff Spinner-Halev.

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