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Housing in America: A Blueprint in Minneapolis

From: After the Fact
Series: Housing in America

Minneapolis is drawing positive national attention for the city’s approach to curbing soaring housing costs. In this episode, we hear about the cit...

Housing in America: Pathways to Homeownership

From: After the Fact
Series: Housing in America

Putting a roof over their heads is a struggle for many Americans. Rising house prices, restrictive zoning, increasing rents, and a lack of small mo...

Housing in America: Where Is Home?

From: After the Fact
Series: Housing in America

In just a few years, from 2019 to 2022, the national median sale price for a single-family home increased by 25%. And the rising costs of buying an...

A lack of base housing is forcing Navy sailors to live on ships, even when they're home in the U.S.

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Commander Robert Molinaro, Executive Officer of the USS Ramage, inspects the ship's sleeping quarters March 22, 2023. Though the Ramage is back in port in Norfolk, Virginia, some sailors have to live on the ship because of a shortage of barracks space on, Credit: Adriones Johnson / U.S. Navy

A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of ...

Bought by KMXT, WRFA-LP, KUT, KPBS, WHRV and more

But Next Time Part 4: The Road to Rebuilding and Recovering, Better (Encore)

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: But Next Time host Chrishelle Palay talks with Houston community organizer, Ericka Bowman after a bus tour of the city organized by housing justice advocates. , Credit: Leah Mahan

In this final episode of four-part series, But Next Time, our guest hosts, Chrishelle Palay and Rose Arrieta take us to Houston to continue the sto...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN

825: Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds / 826: Growing Justice, 9/2/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Making Up Our Minds" - In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Mental health challenges can push p...

823: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 824: Up All Night, 8/26/2023

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

Frances Goldin, Rabble Rousers & A NYC Housing Struggle Wins (August 9, 2023 release)

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

A new film tells how New Yorkers, led by Frances Goldin, won a 50-year housing struggle against developer Robert Moses.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WNYE, and KDNK

Homelessness Through a Peacemaking Lens

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Homelessness is a complex problem. We don't have any one-size-fits-all solution to the problem in this program, but we do have some suggestions f...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

House/Full of Black Women

From: The Kitchen Sisters

For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, ...

Bought by KASU, WWNO, High Plains Public Radio, CHSR-FM 97.9, WXXI Rochester and more

Coping 101: Seeking Stability w/ Ryan Disch-Guzman

From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101

Much like a firefighter who charges toward danger instead of away from it, Ryan Disch-Guzman regularly runs into fires of trauma for a living. His ...

70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 2

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: An unhoused man who goes by “Si Pues” sits with his belongings after moving them around the block during a sweep in Van Nuys, Calif. on July 29, 2022. Once the sweep was finished he will move back to the same spot., Credit: Alisha Jucevic

This week on Making Contact we continue with our look at a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California and how they were f...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KMUN

An ‘insane’ housing market is hitting military families hard when they have to move

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Lisa Koroma and her family moved to this Colorado Springs subdivision after her husband was transferred to Fort Carson. She said their rental home here costs more than the monthly housing allowance her husband receives from the Army., Credit: Lisa Koroma

A recent study found military families are spending more time and money to find places to live when they change duty stations.

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, and KUT

739: Going For Broke: Change Of Address / 740: Traditional Knowledge, 11/5/2022

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge

HOUR ONE: "Going For Broke: Change of Address" - In the first episode of a three-part series on the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Man...

Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)

In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more

California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Dale Stout is one of the first people to benefit from the additional housing supports in California’s new Medicaid initiative, CalAIM. , Credit: Ryan Levi

California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...

Scaling Up: Local Solutions to End Global Homelessness

From: Mateo Schimpf

In this week’s episode, we take on the global housing crisis. Ray dives deep into grassroots housing solutions across Southeast Asia, and later, is...

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Collective Real Estate: Land Without Landlords?

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Decades of discrimination have left millions of African Americans shut out of the housing market and at risk of being targeted by predatory lenders...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, RadioStPete Florida and more

Tenant protections are expiring, and thousands are waiting on rent assistance

From: KSFP

A California program helping renters who accumulated rent debt during the pandemic is about to expire, leaving them under threat of eviction. The S...

But Next Time, Episode 4: Higher Ground

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: BNT in Houston Tour Interview Ericka Bowman, Credit: Leah Mahan

When communities face the aftermath of catastrophes, what does it take to ensure that the next time will be different? In Houston, it takes a city ...

Bought by WXDU

But Next Time, Episode 3: Rising Waters

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jaime is speaking to members of the National Low Income Housing Coalition about the 12 Moms initiative., Credit: But Next Time

In cities around the globe community organizers and direct service agencies are often the first line of response when a climate fueled natural disa...

Bought by WXDU

Finntown

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Building Brooklyn

In the early 1900s, if you walked around Sunset Park, you might have heard Finnish being spoken on the streets. That's because the neighborhood was...