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Ending Homelessness: What is to Be Done

Vin Lyon-Callo
Homelessness
Housing First
Housing
Capitalism
New York City
Housing and Homelessness
St. Louis, United States
Finland
Property
Mental Health
Harsh Criminalization Of Homelessness
Liberalism
Indigenous Self-Government
Wages
Criminalization Of Homelessness
Kalamazoo, United States
Lansing, United States
Cincinnati, United States
Affordable Housing
Racial Disparities

A Podcast Featuring Discussions with Academics, Activists, and Advocates.

It is hard to imagine today but there was a time in the not too distant past without so many people living in camps, on the streets, or in shelters. How did today's conditions of homelessness being largely accepted as "just the way things" are come to be? Why is it that despite the well-meaning helping efforts and hundreds o... more

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Professor Max Buchholz joins Vin Lyon-Callo on the Ending Homelessness: What Is to Be Done? podcast. Their conversation explores the housing affordability crisis in the U.S., examining the disconnect between housing costs and income levels, and the e... more

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The earth's climate is being changed from human actions under fossil fuel driven climate change. Too much water with flooding in some places and not enough with extreme droughts and drying aquifers and rivers in other locations. More extreme weather ... more

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Economic insecurity, housing insecurity, and emotional insecurity are rampant in North America today. Are these interconnected or separate issues? If we are to fully understand homelessness and housing challenges, don’t we need to consider the materi... more

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Vin Lyon-Callo explores the interconnected social and economic conditions that contribute to homelessness, emphasizing the need to address broader systemic issues such as housing affordability, economic disparities, and racial inequalities. It also h... more

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Claire Herbert from the University of Oregon joins the discussion. The conversation explores the range of informal housing and why that has been increasing in the US, the growing criminalization of homelessness and how we might understand the complex... more

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Can we imagine and enact where housing is a basic human right? What would it take to enact such a society? So many people today are dismayed and disenchanted with the growing inequalities, increasing housing insecurity, homelessness, and economic ins... more

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Sam Lutzker from UCLA joins the podcast to discuss his research and advocacy around people living in their vehicles in Los Angeles as well as recent efforts to remove them from the Venice Beach area. The conversation explores the complex definition o... more

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This episode is part one of a two part series focusing on housing and homelessness n Grand Rapids, MI. The conversation with Chris Palusky, CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries, highlights the organization's innovative programs and community partnerships. T... more

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Carrie Anne Marshall
Director of the Social Justice and Mental Health Research Lab; Research Chair in Homelessness Prevention Mental Health Equity at Western University
Western University
Episode: Homelessness, Mental Health, and the Possibility of Thriving: Discussion with Carrie Anne Marshall
Claire Herbert
Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon; author on homeless policy and criminalization
University of Oregon
Episode: Unsheltered Homelessness, Community Concerns, and Avoiding Criminalization
David Perry
Guest contributing to the discussion on homelessness policy and enforcement
Episode: Housing as a Human Right?
Sam Lutzker
PhD student researching vehicular homelessness and advocacy in LA
UCLA
Episode: Criminalizing Vehicle Residency?
Chris Palusky
CEO of Mel Trotter Ministries
Mel Trotter Ministries
Episode: Prevention, Shelter, and Housing with Dignity in Grand Rapids, MI
David Peery
Activist, from the Florida Coalition to Advance Racial Equality
Florida Coalition to Advance Racial Equality
Episode: Why is criminalization of homelessness so common again?
Nick Khomsopa
President and Co-founder of Hudson Housing Lifestyle
Hudson Housing Lifestyle
Episode: Constructing Affordable Housing and Community Today: Challenges and Possibilities
Vanessa Fry
Professor, Boise State University; President of the City Club of Boise; researcher with the Idaho Policy Institute
Boise State University; Idaho Policy Institute
Episode: Boise, Idaho: Homelessness and Housing in a Boom Town
Rob Robinson
Guest expert discussing homelessness and policy
Episode: Wages, Work, and Housing Insecurity: Discussion with Rob Robinson

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Vin Lyon-Callo
Academic and advocate whose research, teaching, and activism focus on homelessness.

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Criminalizing Vehicle Residency?
Q: What are the implications of CA AB 630 and similar legislation for vehicle dwellers?
AB 630 aimed to empower authorities to tow and destroy low-value vehicles, which can remove people's homes without offering housing alternatives; the discussion notes a need for due process and actual housing solutions.
Criminalizing Vehicle Residency?
Q: Why do many vehicle residents avoid shelters despite the push to move people into formal housing?
Shelters are seen as restrictive, unsafe, or dehumanizing, and for many, the logistics of shelter living (like family pets, belongings, or schedules) make staying in a vehicle more appealing as a short- to medium-term option.
Criminalizing Vehicle Residency?
Q: What does it mean to be housed, and who determines that definition?
The guest explains that housing definitions depend on government categorizations, but these often clash with individual experiences—people living in vehicles may view themselves as housed depending on vehicle conditions and personal circumstances.
Housing Precarity and Homeless Camps: Discussion with Jessie Speer
Q: How do global perspectives inform the U.S. debate on homelessness?
Global South perspectives offer critical concepts like precarity and informality, helping to reframe homelessness as a systemic outcome of capitalist housing regimes rather than an isolated failure, and emphasize solidarity across regions.
Housing Precarity and Homeless Camps: Discussion with Jessie Speer
Q: Why Fresno as a focal case, and what did you learn from the bulldozing campaigns?
Fresno provided a lens to see how urban revitalization, funding incentives, and de-encampment rhetoric converge with punitive state actions, revealing three drivers: profit, punishment, and prejudice, shaping demolition as a policy norm.

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Conversations examine how housing policy, economic inequality, public attitudes, and local systems shape homelessness, and what it would take to prevent and end it. Hosted by Vin Lyon-Callo, the discussions bring together academics, advocates, organizers, service providers, and housing practitioners. Guests contribute research, lived experience, and practical perspectives on issues such as criminalization, shelter and Housing First, affordable housing development, race and class, wages, and the role of community support. The approach connects local examples from U.S. cities with policy comparisons across Europe and other regions, while questioning responses that manage homelessness without addressing its causes. Episodes are suited to liste... more

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3. David Perry
4. Sam Lutzker
5. Chris Palusky
6. David Peery
7. Nick Khomsopa
8. Vanessa Fry

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