This is the listening list for PBC Vancouver. The first four episodes are from the PBC global listening list. Everything after the first four are bonus episodes for the Vancouver chapter.
From renting hotels to a jobs report-like census in the night, we look at ways communities are helping the homeless.
Cities are symbols of hope and opportunity. But today, overcrowding and gentrification are hurting their most vulnerable residents. This hour, TED speakers explore how we can build more humane cities....Show More
Matt and Liam were travelling and sick the past two weeks, so no conventional episode of Gimme Shelter this fortnight. Instead we present a collection of interviews with big city mayors on housing and...Show More
In the third episode of 'Making a house a home' we turn our spotlight to Housing First. Why is this probably the best way to fight homelessness? What does the case of Finland show to the rest of...Show More
Jordan talks to Joanna Fried, a psychiatrist at Janian Medical Care who works with the street outreach team. It’s Joanna’s job to conduct the psychiatric evaluations that are part of the packet someon...Show More
Malcolm Gladwell talks to Rosanne Haggerty about ending homelessness for everyone. Forever. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for pri...Show More
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harm...Show More
Keeping in the theme of Homelessness Services, Working revisits a classic episode when Jordan spoke to Michael Ottley, the Director of Operations for one of New York City’s biggest emergency food prog...Show More
This week, Jordan talks to Tamara Ortiz who has been working at Women in Need (WIN) for 23 years. WIN is the largest network of family supportive housing in New York City. Tamara’s job is all about ma...Show More
This week, Jordan talks to Bonnie Coover, a Family Nurse Practitioner and the Director of Street Medicine at Janian Medical Care. Bonnie and her team provide primary care medical services to people wh...Show More
Jordan sits down with Stephanie Somar, a clinical supervisor for the Center for Urban Community Services’ street outreach team. Stephanie and her team work on the very front lines of New York City’s e...Show More
Jordan Weissmann returns to host a new season all about the people who work with the homeless population in New York City. In this first episode, Jordan speaks to Mark Hess, a Supervising Attorney in ...Show More
mm recommended:
Interesting episode about what communities are doing to help the homeless. They counted 100,000 people who were homeless, so they found 100,000 homes for them, but that didn't work. I wished they answ...Show More