The Times podcast: Housing the unhoused, voucher edition
Todd Walters looks out from his new apartment that he secured through PATH in San Diego
(K.C. Alfred / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Listen to this episode of The Times:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Biden administration authorized over a billion dollars in housing vouchers to help people stay off the streets. The program had problems, but one city — San Diego — succeeded in a big way.
Today, we find out how they did it. Read the full transcript here.
Host: Gustavo Arellano
Guests: Former L.A. Times fellow Anumita Kaur
More reading:
How San Diego achieved surprising success housing homeless people
How San Francisco fell behind on housing its homeless population
Homeless people wait as Los Angeles lets thousands of federal housing vouchers go unused
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