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In exploring the intersection of homelessness and public space, I have sometimes heard comments like, “Why should we build more parks, if th...
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In conversation and reflection, the HomeLand Podcasts explores causes, manifestations and solutions to homelessness in the public realm of America's cities.

In exploring the intersection of homelessness and public space, I have sometimes heard comments like, “Why should we build more parks, if th...
Designers who have watched the homelessness crisis expand during their educational careers seem to have a heightened sense of the design com...
On today’s episode I wanted to move the conversation away from the big cities and talk about how homelessness impacts some of the smaller co...
On this episode of the HomeLandLab podcast, I’m very pleased to have Jonathan Martin, Editor of Project Homeless for The Seattle Times and S...
About a year ago, I happened to be in Washington, DC visiting the National Building Museum, one of my all time favorites. There, in an exhib...

While I was visiting Austin, recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Natasha Ponczek Shoemake. Natasha works for Austin Public Heal...
A couple of weeks ago, my family and I had the opportunity to travel to Austin. Among visits to too many taco and barbeque joints, I also ha...
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the face of homelessness. What is the face that you see? Is that person male or female, white or b...

“I actually think emergency isn’t quite the right framing now. I think the right framing is that we have a refugee crisis, except [people ex...
Tim Harris is the Executive Director of the street newspaper, Real Change and currently serves as the North American representative to the I...
Designers Sara Zewde and Sloan Dawson were startled by the differences in how homelessness was manifest in West Coast cities, including thei...
John Malpede, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Poverty Department, has been working with the housed and unhoused community members...
When I began this project, I wanted to speak with as many people as possible , from as many as many perspectives as possible, about the over...

I first met Tamika Butler when she was the director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition . Brilliant, funny, and not prone to pulling...
On today’s podcast I interview Allen Compton, Principal and Founder of SALT Landscape Architects and Rachel Allen of Rachel Allen Architectu...
One of the ways that housing insecurity is arriving in cities is through the growth of people who are turning to vehicular living as an affo...
Sometimes an interview comes together through serendipity. While in Los Angeles for a concert, a friend shared an in-depth article about the...

There is a level of opacity surrounding so much related to homelessness, and perhaps no area is more shrouded and misunderstood than the law...

One of the most insightful and eye-opening books I’ve read this year has been Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of H...
In every community, one of the city agencies most impacted by homelessness are parks departments. For people who don’t have anywhere else to...
As the unofficial “concierge of Skid Row,” Wendell Blassingame has earned his reputation as an “angel” and as a “saint.” A man of deep wisdo...
Technology has revolutionized just about every aspect of our existence over the last two decades. Now tech and human service providers are w...

For people who are housed, and housed comfortably, there is much about the experience of homelessness that is opaque and not easy to underst...
“Is that person a homeless person or is that person my neighbor?” – Roger Valdez In discussions about homelessness, I’m always interested in...
In a scene that sounds like it was straight out of Breaking Bad, Harley Lever says the tipping point for him was when a mobile meth lab burs...

In this episode, Brice offers his initial reflections on why the HomeLand Lab project and podcast exist, and how we--as people responsible f...

In many cities and town’s there’s often a neighborhood where poverty is concentrated. At certain times in their histories New York’s Hell’s...
There are very few voices out there who would question the nearly panacea like effects of adding more community greenspace. In popular media...

If you could, would you? That’s the question The Block Project asks us to confront. If you could help someone experiencing homelessness, wou...
A few Saturday’s ago, I was able to participate in a student-led panel discussion on homelessness at the University of Washington. The forma...
Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw represents Seattle District 7, which includes much of the city's downtown core. She currently chair...