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Homelessness In America
The Search for Solutions During COVID-19

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Homelessness In America: The Search for Solutions During COVID-19
Presented jointly with GBH News
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

On a single night in January 2019, approximately 568,000 people in the United States were homeless, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. A year later — with months of a subsequent and ongoing coronavirus pandemic ravaging the country — the homeless experience has become even more fraught and complex. During this event, Forum panelists examined the current state of homelessness in America. Who is impacted? Who is at risk? How has the pandemic impacted the situation? What programs and policies may help? Included in the discussion was a description of the recently established Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard Chan School.

Part of: Policy Controversies.

Presented jointly with GBH News

Image Credit: iStock/sdominick

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Moderator

Jenifer McKim
senior investigative reporter at the GBH News Center for Investigative Reporting

Expert Participants

Amanda Andere
CEO, Funders Together to End Homelessness

Rosanne Haggerty
President and Chief Executive Officer, Community Solutions

Howard Koh
Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School, as well as Faculty Chair of the Initiative on Health and Homelessness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Margot Kushel
Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and the Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations

James O’Connell
President, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

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