10/3/23 Somebody Think of the Homeless! "Failing Upward" part 2 S3E9p2

“Somebody Think of the Homeless!”
It’s a natural instinct to want to help the less fortunate people around you, right? Even Judas Iscariot seemed on the surface to care about the welfare of the poor, though of course his motive is suspect. But what if you’re part of the reason why there is so much poverty and suffering in the first place? Do you still get to participate in the solution? Today on Something’s Happening Here we continue our discussion about the folly of breaking something in order to fix it by looking at the world’s leader in spending to fix the homeless problem while simultaneously making the problem considerably worse: my former home state of California.

"Failing Upward" Part 2: 10/3/23
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/newsom-scotus-encampment-california-00117762
https://www.hoover.org/research/despite-spending-22-billion-california-housing-construction-87-below-gavin-newsoms-goal
This week on Something’s Happening Here, we look at the spiritual problem of finding solutions to problems caused by the same people trying to solve them.

Season 3 Episode 9
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