A San Francisco study shows that the City’s covid-focused policy to house homeless folks in hotels helped those folks access more primary healthcare with fewer emergency room needs, and also helped get access to longer term housing. Our guests are Dr Elizabeth Abbs, one of the authors of the study, who is a primary care doctor at Tom Waddell Urban Health Center in the Tenderloin; along with Chuqin Jiang, is a data reporter with San Francisco-based independent newsroom Mission Local.
Read Chuqin Jiang’s story for Mission Local here: https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/hotels-for-the-homeless-reduced-emergency-room-visits-study-shows/
Read the entire report here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11524-022-00705-8
Then, we come back across the Bay to Oakland, where the Wood Street encampment is being evicted by the City. We are joined by John Janosko, a Wood street encampment resident, along with Talya Husbands-Hankin, the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets.
This week’s Resistance in Residence Artist is Randolph Belle.
Check out Randolph Belle’s website: http://www.randolphbelle.com/
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