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What’s Next With Brexit; Plus: Wet winter season takes its toll on Bay Area homeless communities

0:08 – What’s next with Brexit after most recent soft exit plan suffers a crushing defeat? Alex Dean (@AlexDean94is a political correspondent with the Prospect Magazine in the UK.

0:34 – Storms and Climate change: Why winter storms seem to be getting worse. We speak with Eugene Cordero (@eugeneccordero), Professor in the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San Jose State University.

0:50 – Historic Mega Floods: what past climate trends can tell us about the future. Lynn Ingram is professor emerita of Earth and Planetary Science and Geography at UC Berkeley and Co-author of The West Without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us About Tomorrow.

1:08 – Homeless in the Rain – As the rain was starting yesterday, our production intern Justin Gold went out to speak to some folks camped on the Berkeley / Oakland border at the Here/There sign to discuss the challenges that the wet and rainy season hurls upon the homeless.

1:34 – Community-based solutions for permanent low-income housing.

  • Zachary Murray is a Housing policy expert who joined Oakland Community Land Trust in January as the Advocacy and Partnerships Program Manager. Previously Zachary worked with Grounded Solutions Network and the Greenlining Institute both in Oakland, CA.
  • John Jones III is the Director of Community and Political Engagement at Just Cities. He is also formerly incarcerated, and after paroling was unemployed and homeless for eighteen months.

 

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