We need affordable housing now! On today's episode, we look more closely at two stories that underscore the importance of affordable housing.

First, we'll examine what the recent Supreme Court ruling in Grants Pass v. Johnson means for unhoused people who are living on the streets and how historical disinvestment in affordable and public housing has created our current homelessness wave.

Then, we'll hear about the fight to legalize and preserve one important type of affordable housing units in New York City – basement apartments – and how the escalating impacts of climate change are making that campaign more urgent than ever.

Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project Annetta Seecharran, executive director of Chhaya Community Development Corporation

Making Contact Staff:

Episode Host: Lucy Kang

Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang

Executive Director: Jina Chung

Editor: Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong

Engineer: Jeff Emtman

Music credit:

Pending (Relaxing Acoustic Ballad Nylon Guitar) by William_King via Pixabay

Credits for "Invisible Homeless" by the Queens Memory Podcast

Episode produced by Stella Gu in conjunction with Melody Cao, Anna Williams, and Natalie Milbrodt
Podcast hosted by J. Faye Yuan
Mixing and editing by Cory Choy
Music composed by Elias Ravin
Voiceover work by Xia Liangjie and Chen Xiaojun

Learn More:

Making Contact homepage: www.focmedia.org

Western Regional Advocacy Project: https://wraphome.org/

Queens Memory Podcast: www.queensmemory.org

Chhaya CDC: BASE Campaign: https://chhayacdc.org/campaigns/base-campaign/