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Who counts as homeless in America?<\/p>\n

If you ask the Department of Housing and Urban Development, around 750,000 people are homeless in America. If you ask the Department of Education, that number shoots up into the millions. What does this discrepancy tell us?\u00a0 And how do our cultural ideas about homelessness shape who we see as homeless, and who gets help? To find out, Brittany talks with Dr. Margot Kushel, Director at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and Dr. Molly Richard, assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s College of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

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Who counts as homeless in America?<\/p>\n

If you ask the Department of Housing and Urban Development, around 750,000 people are homeless in America. If you ask the Department of Education, that number shoots up into the millions. What does this discrepancy tell us?\u00a0 And how do our cultural ideas about homelessness shape who we see as homeless, and who gets help? To find out, Brittany talks with Dr. Margot Kushel<\/a>, Director at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and Dr. Molly Richard,<\/a> assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Rhode Island\u2019s College of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n

Want more deep dives on cultural taboos?\u00a0 Check out these episodes:
The truth about men on the ‘down low’<\/strong><\/a>
Why can’t we be normal about polyamory?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Support Public Media. Join NPR Plus.<\/a><\/p>\n

Follow Brittany on Instagram: @bmluse<\/a><\/p>\n

For handpicked podcast recommendations every week, subscribe to NPR\u2019s Pod Club newsletter at npr.org\/podclub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[1239,1238,885],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-its-been-a-minute","tag-homelessness","tag-homelessness-crisis","tag-housing-policy"],"yoast_head":"\nHomelessness is more common than you think. - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=5609\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Homelessness is more common than you think. - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Who counts as homeless in America?If you ask the Department of Housing and Urban Development, around 750,000 people are homeless in America. 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