For this episode of the Poverty Policy Podcast we’re teaming up with the Healthcare-NOW! and their Medicare for All podcast for a crossover episode. We discuss the Build Back Better bill and weigh its potential impact on individuals experiencin

Episode 14: Housing is Health Care

Sep 8th, 2021 38m 8s

On this episode we are cross-posting the Voices for Human Needs Podcast on the topic of "Housing Is Health Care" Episode Summary: "In this episode of the Voices for Human Needs podcast, we discuss issues of housing, health care, and policy to

Episode 13: Vaccines

Jan 6th, 2021 26m 49s

This episode of the Poverty Policy Podcast is on the COVID-19 vaccine. Regina speaks with Katie League, COVID-19 Policy Manager at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) and author of the latest vaccine policy brief (linked b

Episode 12: Evictions

Nov 23rd, 2020 27m 32s

Regina interviews Noëlle Porter (Director of Government Affairs, National Housing Law Project) and attorney and artist, Rasheedah Phillips (Managing Attorney for Housing Policy at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia). In this episode, we

Episode 11: Disasters & Housing

Oct 9th, 2020 27m 36s

On this episode of the Poverty Policy Podcast Regina interviews Joey Lindstrom, the Field Director for the National Low Income Housing Coalition, about disaster response and housing needs. Joey talks about what an equitable disaster response lo

Episode 10: Elections

Sep 11th, 2020 26m 33s

For this episode of the Poverty Policy Podcast, Regina interviews Donald Whitehead Jr., the newly named Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, about elections and voting for people living in poverty and homelessness. Don

Episode 9: Resilience

Apr 29th, 2020 31m 14s

The episode features conversations with Carrie Craig, MSW, LCSW from Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and Lawanda Williams, LCSW-C from Baltimore’s Health Care for the Homeless. Both Carrie and Lawanda are licensed social workers and profess

Episode 8: COVID - 19

Mar 25th, 2020 30m 30s

Episode 8 features a conversation with Catherine Crosland, MD, from Director of Homeless Outreach at Unity Health Care in Washington DC, and Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Policy Director at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council on t

Episode 7: Public Office

Jan 30th, 2020 34m 46s

This episode explores what it takes to run for office and the role of public officials in ending poverty. Interviewees include Bakari Burns, MPH, MBA (City Council Member, Orlando, FL), Elizabeth Talbott, MBA (City Council Member, Waterford, CA

Episode 6: Food

Oct 23rd, 2019 30m 42s

Episode 6 explores hunger and food security and features interviews with Lauren Badger, Senior Government Relations Associate at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), and Art Rios Sr., Chair of the National Consumer Advisory Board (NCAB).

Episode 5: Work

Jul 25th, 2019 34m 56s

The Council’s Poverty Policy Podcast's new “Episode 5: Work” explores what employment looks like for people living in poverty and how work requirements in programs like Medicaid push people further into poverty. The podcast features an intervie

Episode 4: Yoga

Mar 18th, 2019 22m 28s

Join us to hear from three special guests on the connection between yoga, poverty, and policy. Yogi Albert, Yoga instructor and advocate in Baltimore, MD. https://anchor.fm/albert-millerDeirdre Hoey, LCSW-C, Therapist at Health Care for th

Episode 3: Community

Dec 18th, 2018 33m 31s

In this episode we speak with Paula Lomazzi, Executive Director of the Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee and Matt Bennett, author of Connecting Paradigms. Paula talks about her experience as a organizer,the challenges she's faced in her

Episode 1: Homelessness and Health Care 101

Oct 9th, 2018 21m 3s

In our first episode the Policy Team on staff at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council discuss what homelessness is, how we got where we are today, and the connection between health care policies, health status, and poverty.

Episode 2: Immigration Policy

Jun 6th, 2015 23m 35s

In this episode we speak with Wendy Cervantes, the Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). Wendy talks about what immigrants look like in this country, why access to benefits are so important for immigrants, how w

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