In Search of Home Part 2: What Happens When Someone Loses Their Housing
We talk about the early stages of losing housing and the interventions that can help keep homelessness “brief and rare.”
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Show Notes
Forum is continuing our series, “In Search of Home: Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis” with a look into what happens when people lose their housing. Each year in the Bay Area, an estimated 44,000 people will become homeless, according to All Home, a Bay Area nonprofit. Some find a new place to live quickly, while others shuffle through couch-surfing, sleeping outside, staying at shelters, living in cars or a tent. We’ll talk about the early stages of losing housing and the interventions that can help keep homelessness “brief and rare” as policy experts say, and head off chronic homelessness.
Guests:
Vanessa Rancaño, housing affordability reporter, NPR
Sharon Cornu, executive director, St. Mary's Center - a provider of transitional housing and other services for seniors and families in Oakland
Markos Gonzalez, associate director of programs community outreach, Bay Area Community Services (BACS) - a provider of behavioral health and homelessness services
Keanna Ward, Bay Area resident, is formerly homeless
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