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The path to permanent housing: what does it take to get indoors?
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:23:56
Publish Date: 2026-03-05 13:30:00
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Why is it so hard for people to move from homeless encampments to housing? California spends a lot of money trying to get people off the street — $27 billion since 2019. The state’s Encampment Resolution Fund in particular has invested over $700 million into moving people from encampments, to shelter, to permanent housing. There are still thousands of people living on the streets across the state, and in the Bay Area, it can feel like there’s little progress to show for it.

KALW’s homelessness reporter Alastair Boone takes us to Richmond, California to learn more about what it really takes to find permanent housing.
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