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Say What? # 33: Y have U not helped the forgotten Black Men?-Ep 2790 · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Wee people who are dark food.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let us hang around this town. And that when
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  Speaker 2: those say come true, which is good for nothing, they
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  Speaker 2: all hope get a boy's grown up shot his chin.
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  Speaker 2: Now we can't harder and stand for that. Or is
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  Speaker 2: that really we say?
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  Speaker 1: We people who dog have been flu We got no
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  Speaker 1: time to segregame.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about round and go to.
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  Speaker 1: How ye again. I'll kiss your can. You're just the.
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  Speaker 2: Surface of our dumb people. If the man could you see,
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  Speaker 2: you know your color? Same mess me call me brother
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  Speaker 2: as you stand in your glory, I know you a man.
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  Speaker 1: If I tell the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Story, get yourself.
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  Speaker 1: To get.
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  Speaker 2: Learns, take the.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not committing all without ze Ja.
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  Speaker 2: I know all constant problems doing the hell of my sulfs.
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  Speaker 4: The peace came the.
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  Speaker 2: Run.
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  Speaker 1: Today's as a level with.
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  Speaker 3: The old class consolas.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know we have great perspect for the surfer
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  Speaker 1: and mother you see then.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing in.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a joker in the street, loving one ground
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  Speaker 1: and killing the others. When the time comes and we
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  Speaker 1: are ready free, there'll be no brothers left. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: a wee people who were dark at food. Don't let
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  Speaker 1: us hang around us town, and that when the same untrue,
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  Speaker 1: which is good and they are a boy's not supposed chip.
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  Speaker 2: Now we can't hardly stand the last or as that ring.
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  Speaker 2: We hardened me brother, as to.
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  Speaker 1: Stand in your glory. I know your home man in
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  Speaker 1: my tror. The whole story hardened me, bro.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've come alone long.
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  Speaker 1: Way, but let us not be so spens map. But
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow has been an even bright and day.
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  Speaker 4: So you've heard a song. Bye, Curtis Mayfield. I know
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  Speaker 4: you listen to the words. We people are darker than Blue.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio Program. I'm Gary mccantz.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for joining like to knowledge God and you
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  Speaker 5: are listeners as we end twenty twenty four, Congratulations to
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  Speaker 5: the men Challenges of Faith Radio program. Finally have fifty
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  Speaker 5: percent ladies and fifty percent men as listeners. Thank you
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  Speaker 5: for tuning in. There was a significant rise in homelessness
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  Speaker 5: here in the United States and twenty twenty three, falling
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  Speaker 5: the expiration of certain pandemic air measures and also as
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  Speaker 5: a result of the worst name affordable housing crisis and
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  Speaker 5: changes in the rental housing market. As a result, about
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  Speaker 5: seventy thousand, six hundred and fifty more people became homeless
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  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three, the twelve percent increase from twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty two to an estimated six hundred and fifty three thousand,
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and four people, according to point in time
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  Speaker 5: estimates from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Putt
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  Speaker 5: you're tuning end today listening to say what number thirty
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  Speaker 5: three entering twenty twenty five? Where are some of the
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  Speaker 5: long forgotten black men?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 5: On episode twenty seven ninety and the question you got
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  Speaker 5: to ask and answer is who are beyond howse Well?
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  Speaker 5: People who identify as black, Hispanic, or Latino American, Indian, Alaska, Native,
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  Speaker 5: Pacific Islander, or Native Hawaiian continue to be overrepresented among
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  Speaker 5: the homeless population compared to their share in the United
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  Speaker 5: States population. For example, Hud explains that while Black Americans
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  Speaker 5: comprise thirteen percent of the US of population, they make
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  Speaker 5: up thirty seven percent of all people experiencing homelessness. Even
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  Speaker 5: more startling is that fifty percent of families experiencing homelessness
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  Speaker 5: because I doubtifyed as black. I want you to ponder
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  Speaker 5: that and the reason why I say it. In less
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  Speaker 5: than seventy two hours, we're entering two thousand and twenty five,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm going back to twenty twenty three, in twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty two, and now talking about twenty twenty four. According
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  Speaker 5: to the Philadelphia Tribune, an article by Angela Hart Waiting
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  Speaker 5: lists to Nowhere homelessness surveys trapped black men on the street.
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  Speaker 5: Maurice Clark, Las Vegas hoddled in his tent along dusty
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  Speaker 5: railroad tracks. That's too Homeless outreach workers began asking questions
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  Speaker 5: to determine whether he would qualify for free of subsidized housing.
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  Speaker 5: Did he use drugs? Had he ever been in jail?
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  Speaker 5: How many times had he been to an emergency room?
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  Speaker 5: Had he been attacked on the streets? Tried to harm himself?
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  Speaker 5: Engaged him sex for money. Clark didn't feel comfortable being
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  Speaker 5: honest with the surveyors he'd never met before, who were
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  Speaker 5: flanked by police officers as they recorded his responses on
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  Speaker 5: a tablet. I've done some crazy things to survived, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm going to say no because there's these
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  Speaker 5: officers right there. Instead, recalling the encounter on a fall
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  Speaker 5: afternoon outside his tent, I'm a black man in America,
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  Speaker 5: asking this stuff hits a little bit different. Now, I
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  Speaker 5: want to stop for a moment, and again I ask you,
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  Speaker 5: the listener, to ponder. You've listened all the political and wealthy,
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  Speaker 5: and all the whoever you want to bring to your
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  Speaker 5: heart and mind organizations, all the experts, so called experts.
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  Speaker 5: You've heard about the migrant, You've heard about everything that's
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  Speaker 5: been given. And he says, I'm a black man in America,
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  Speaker 5: So asking this stuff hits a little bit different. National
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  Speaker 5: homelessness experts and local leaders say such personal questions exasperate
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  Speaker 5: racial disparities in the rank of the nation's on how
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  Speaker 5: particularly as more people experience homelessness complete for scarce taxpayer
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  Speaker 5: subsidized housing amidst a deepening before the build the crisis.
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  Speaker 5: Vulnerability questionnaires was created to determine how likely a person
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  Speaker 5: is to get sick and die while homeless, and the
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  Speaker 5: system has been widely adopted during the past decade to
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  Speaker 5: help prioritize who gets housing. The more a homeless persons
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  Speaker 5: perceived to be vulnerable, the more points they're scoring the questionnaire,
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  Speaker 5: and the higher they move in the housing troupe. The
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  Speaker 5: surveys are being cited for worsening racial disparities by systematically
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  Speaker 5: placing homeless white people at the front of the line
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  Speaker 5: ahead of the black prayers. The black peers partly because
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  Speaker 5: the scoring awards more points for using the health care
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  Speaker 5: and relies on trusting the system, both of which favor
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  Speaker 5: white people. Black people make up thirteen point seven percent
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  Speaker 5: of the overall US population, yet account for thirty two
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  Speaker 5: ero point two percent for the nation's homeless population. White people,
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  Speaker 5: including some people up for spented, make up seventy five
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  Speaker 5: percent of the country and represent fifty five percent of
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  Speaker 5: America's homeless its races in a system a systematic way,
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  Speaker 5: said Mark Domees, a California based policy director at the
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  Speaker 5: University of California at San Francisco and the lead researcher
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  Speaker 5: for one of the largest studies analyzing the black homeless population.
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  Speaker 5: Vulnerability surveys took off after a resident Obama in two
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  Speaker 5: thousand and nine signed into law sweeping rules requiring the
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  Speaker 5: country's local homelessness agencies known as Continuums of Care and
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  Speaker 5: currently number at three hundred and eighty one, to adopt
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  Speaker 5: a method to assess the vulnerability of homeless people to
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  Speaker 5: receive federal housing and homelessness funding and counties predominantly adopted
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  Speaker 5: their survey called dh sp DAT, which is still used
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  Speaker 5: by an estimated two thirds of homeless agencies. Some experts
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  Speaker 5: argue is time to toss the vulnerability assessment and looking
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  Speaker 5: not only health and social needs, but also systematic racism, poverty,
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  Speaker 5: involvement in the criminal justice system, various the housing and
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  Speaker 5: other economic drivers that influence homelessness. Several US communities are
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  Speaker 5: revamping their assessment system to reduce racial disparities and help
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  Speaker 5: more black people get housing. Once you stop for a moment,
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  Speaker 5: I'm once you to ponder when you look at twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty four and before. Okay, yeah, all these experts talk
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  Speaker 5: about the black community, black men and no solution, and
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  Speaker 5: it's worse. In contrast is once you founder and contrasts
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  Speaker 5: to what the priorities have been. In Los Angeles, officials
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  Speaker 5: are launching an effort to use artificial intelligence to better
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  Speaker 5: assess whether someone should be prioritized for placement, in part
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  Speaker 5: by looking at whether black people have more encounters with
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement and discrimination and health care. You see, all
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  Speaker 5: that sounds nice, It sounds nice, but what have you
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  Speaker 5: done for that person that's hurting, helpless, homeless hopeless.
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  Speaker 1: What have you done for them?
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  Speaker 5: I'm not talking about individuals that have come over illegally.
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  Speaker 5: Now notice the difference. I just say the ones that's
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  Speaker 5: come through legal process. And you wonder why the black mail,
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  Speaker 5: the skepticism on all that you talk about, whoever you are,
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  Speaker 5: including those with the same skin tone out front, who
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  Speaker 5: already got yours depending on what yours is. We need
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  Speaker 5: to own the racism that is embedded in our system,
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  Speaker 5: said Creana Fisher, vice president of Response Systems for the
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  Speaker 5: lead homelessness agency in Travis County, Texas, which includes Austin.
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  Speaker 5: It's not just about the tool, It's about funding, It's
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  Speaker 5: about program outcomes, even if it's unintentional. We have created
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  Speaker 5: a homeless response system that is rooted and racism. So
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  Speaker 5: why is that? I'm just posing a question because it
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  Speaker 5: all comes from inside the heart. It would you say
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  Speaker 5: it comes from the inside the heart? The article continues.
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  Speaker 5: The assessment tool were first tested in Boston whether the
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  Speaker 5: homeless population is more likely to be white, male and
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  Speaker 5: have severe mental illness of substance use disorder. Black people
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  Speaker 5: are more likely to be homeless because of economic reasons
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  Speaker 5: such as poverty or joblessness that are less likely to
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  Speaker 5: have a record of medical care because of a lack
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  Speaker 5: of access to health insurance and a less use of
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  Speaker 5: health care. So the system, whoever the system is comprised
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  Speaker 5: of individuals. How long is an expert you're in your position?
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  Speaker 5: Have you known about this? And why have there not
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  Speaker 5: been any solution? It's a lot of knowledge but no action.
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  Speaker 5: The article continued. This whole system was piloted on this
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  Speaker 5: older white population in Boston, so it does a poor
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  Speaker 5: job of capturing the These are black folks who don't
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  Speaker 5: tend to be as sick as white folks. They're more broke.
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  Speaker 5: Domes said. The initial thought was to prioritize these people
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  Speaker 5: because they're going to die sooner. It was trying to
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  Speaker 5: tackle morality, but it wound up in racistem Why is
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  Speaker 5: that Local leaders point to economic disadvantages that drive more
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  Speaker 5: black people to homelessness, including placement in foster care and
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  Speaker 5: higher rates of eviction and joblessness. Why is that? And
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  Speaker 5: if you look at New York, you look at Chicago,
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  Speaker 5: especially Chicago, do you notice how the people have turned
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  Speaker 5: against a politician of the same skin tone because they
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  Speaker 5: promised something with their lips, but did some of together
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  Speaker 5: with their shoes, care about other communities versus the community
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  Speaker 5: that put them in office. In Los Angeles County, home
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  Speaker 5: of the nation's largest homeless population, thirty one percent of
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  Speaker 5: homeless people are black, though the overall black population is
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  Speaker 5: nine percent. Why is that? As you enter twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: five and Austin, black people at count for nearly thirty
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  Speaker 5: two percent of the homeless population, compared with seven point
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  Speaker 5: six percent overall.
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  Speaker 2: Why is that?
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  Speaker 5: And in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, black people
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  Speaker 5: represent forty two percent of the homeless population but twelve
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  Speaker 5: percent of the overall population. Why is that? We're asking
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  Speaker 5: all these questions, but we created a waiting list to
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  Speaker 5: know where, said Brenda Barnes, who leads the Southern Nevada
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  Speaker 5: Homelessness continuing with tear. Even the experts got the answer.
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  Speaker 5: They're telling you what the problem is as you, but
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  Speaker 5: you don't want to hear that, whoever you are. The
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  Speaker 5: article now touches on the streets of Las Vegas, grasping
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  Speaker 5: his toothbrush after clean up his tent on a recent morning.
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  Speaker 5: Clark forty five recard taking this recall taking his housing
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  Speaker 5: questionnaires this year, he kicked off responses to outreach workers
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  Speaker 5: that should rank him hind the queue. He lacks stable housing,
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  Speaker 5: has been homeless for nearly four years, and has no
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  Speaker 5: job or reliable income. Once you think about to ponder that,
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  Speaker 5: don't get mad, Just ponder it. Think about it. Try
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  Speaker 5: to understand that individual who happened to be black, who
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  Speaker 5: happened to be a male. These are your facts that
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  Speaker 5: you're presenting. And here you have an individual that's been
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  Speaker 5: homeless for nearly four years, no job, reliable income. That's
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  Speaker 5: not to say he does not have a role to
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  Speaker 5: play men in getting up Well, what if the person
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  Speaker 5: are doing and have done all they can do? And
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  Speaker 5: in his particular case, based upon his housing questionnaire that
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  Speaker 5: you provided, he should be up at the top receiving help.
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  Speaker 5: But he told them he frequented emergency rooms and been
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  Speaker 5: to jail pleading guilty to a felony theft crime he
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  Speaker 5: said he did not commit, and several times for possessing
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  Speaker 5: of drugs and paraphernalia. He used a certain drug mostly
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  Speaker 5: to be alert at night when it became dangerous. Was
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  Speaker 5: he ever thought it? Yes, especially since becoming homeless in
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty. All these questionnaires, did you find out what
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  Speaker 5: the cause, they the factors were that led him to homelessness.
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  Speaker 5: Clark wasn't forthcoming with outreach workers about the details of
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  Speaker 5: his drugs, use of involvement with law enforcements, and that
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  Speaker 5: he sold his body for sex, and that the experience
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  Speaker 5: of use. He couldn't recall all the details of his
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  Speaker 5: medical history, either, continually fleeing law enforcements with his tent
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  Speaker 5: hauling in along dizzy train tracks. He's high at times
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  Speaker 5: and often in the state of chaos and fear that
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  Speaker 5: can scramble his memory or making scared of being arrested.
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  Speaker 5: He didn't share with them his occasional thoughts of suicide
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  Speaker 5: or his health concerns, including possibly having diabetes. They asked
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  Speaker 5: me about drugs. I was like, I don't know. Clark said, like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm supposed to tell them. I got a dicta to
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  Speaker 5: meth or sold my body. I had no idea whether
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  Speaker 5: this information was going it was being used for. After
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  Speaker 5: he took the survey, no housing came. Now you see
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  Speaker 5: that you're talking about trust. So I come to you
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  Speaker 5: and I share my insights, and here's the end result. Nothing.
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  Speaker 5: Even those who do answer honestly find themselves competing for
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  Speaker 5: a limited supply of a portable housing. John Harris, who
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  Speaker 5: was also black, was sleeping under a bridge. He said
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  Speaker 5: he took the excuse me questionnaire twice and it led
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  Speaker 5: nowhere twice, and I led nowhere, He said. I called
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  Speaker 5: and asked what happened with my housing? They said I
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  Speaker 5: didn't score high enough. Think about that. You have one
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  Speaker 5: that scored high enough. No, another one, according to them,
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  Speaker 5: that didn't score high enough. Nothing. Why is that? Experts?
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  Speaker 5: Questionnaire was never tested as a housing assessment to nor
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  Speaker 5: meant to determine whether someone gets in the housing. Did
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  Speaker 5: you tell the people that you were interviewing so that
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  Speaker 5: they had clear knowledge or not? And whether they wanted
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  Speaker 5: to participate in the questionnaire since their hopes were up high?
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  Speaker 1: What did you?
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  Speaker 5: Experts who study the vulnerability question They also point out
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  Speaker 5: that the racial and ethnic background of the people given
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  Speaker 5: the surveys doesn't reflect that as the people being questioned,
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  Speaker 5: which can lead to an accurate result of respond that
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  Speaker 5: doesn't feel safe understand the survey's response. Have you thought
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  Speaker 5: about that? Experts? What have you? Or maybe you just
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  Speaker 5: like the article of saying just counting people for your purposes?
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  Speaker 5: Have you thought about that well, one of the persons
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  Speaker 5: that took the surveys, I don't know what the solution is.
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  Speaker 5: Say what. According to the US Census Bureau, written by
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  Speaker 5: Brian Glastman, nearly three hundred and twenty seven thousand people
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  Speaker 5: in the United States and communis homelessness lived in shelters
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  Speaker 5: a small proportion zero point one percent of the US
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  Speaker 5: population from twenty eighteen to twent ouand and twenty two,
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  Speaker 5: but hired them from twenty thirteen to twenty seventeen. According
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  Speaker 5: to the American Community Survey five year estimates released in
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  Speaker 5: a working paper, among the sheltered population aged sixteen and
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  Speaker 5: over experienced homelessness, nearly fifteen percent were unemployed. In additional
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  Speaker 5: sixty one percent but not in the labor force. Among
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  Speaker 5: the sheltered population experienced homelessness, forty percent was females, eight
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  Speaker 5: percent were under the age of eighteen, eight percent was
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  Speaker 5: sixty five and over, thirty two percent was non Hispanic White,
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  Speaker 5: thirty seven were non Hispanic Blacks, and thirty five had
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  Speaker 5: a disability. Are you listening? Are you sure? Beginning Raye
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  Speaker 5: twenty five, the US Department of Housed in Urban Development
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  Speaker 5: offered the policy Development and Research Data twenty eleven. A
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  Speaker 5: Homelessness from Exclusion to Destitution, Race, Affordable Housing and Homelessness,
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  Speaker 5: an interacy report generated by George R. Carter the third
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  Speaker 5: So since the nineteen eighties, Blacks have been over represented
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  Speaker 5: in the homeless population with respect to their share of
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  Speaker 5: the national population and the poverty population. The little research
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  Speaker 5: has emerged to explain why this overpresentation exists. Did you
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  Speaker 5: hear me not ask earlier? What the causative factors are?
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  Speaker 5: Period report dated twenty eleven. We're going into twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 5: and he was wondering why in twenty twenty four the
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  Speaker 5: black male spoke up and said no more. Carter's report
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  Speaker 5: continued to say, previous researchers have suggested the residential segregation
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  Speaker 5: and the Connie supply before the belly housing pushed low
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  Speaker 5: income black of the homelessness, and that greater access the
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  Speaker 5: homeless tellers who's low income blacks and the homelessness at
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  Speaker 5: greater rates than whites? Say what so again? I asked
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  Speaker 5: you in a few days, it is twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 5: what are the causative factors?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 5: Forty five years later, looking around in each state relative
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  Speaker 5: to the black male alone, which affects the black female,
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  Speaker 5: the family, the community, and the country. And the question
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  Speaker 5: is why did you, whoever you are that's out front
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  Speaker 5: or behind the scenes controlling, let this happen. We'll continue
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  Speaker 5: to let this happen.
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  Speaker 2: Why.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, And by the way, where you're aware that as
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  Speaker 5: we close out twenty twenty four, the homelessness in the
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  Speaker 5: United States gets this highest level on record as billions
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  Speaker 5: of dollars a cent of foreign nations. You only want
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  Speaker 5: to start at home, start itself inside your house, neighborhood,
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  Speaker 5: place of worship, continue on that affects the country a nation.
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  Speaker 5: The twenty twenty four Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress
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  Speaker 5: by the US Department of Housing in Urban Development was
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  Speaker 5: released and revealed the shocking number of homeless Americans. The
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  Speaker 5: Department of Housing in Urban Development tally more than seven
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  Speaker 5: hundred and seventy thousand people experiencing homelessness on a single
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  Speaker 5: night in January twenty twenty fourth. Now you know, just
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  Speaker 5: two days from now, it's January two thousand and twenty
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  Speaker 5: five and eighteen percent anentreach from twenty twenty three. That
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  Speaker 5: is likely an under count. The number of families with
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  Speaker 5: children expriends homelessness also jump thirty nine percent, meaning one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand children are out on the street.
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  Speaker 5: Say well. Veterans were the only population where homelessness continue
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  Speaker 5: to decline, down eight percent from twenty twenty three. The
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  Speaker 5: number of veterans experience homelessness has fallen fifty five percent
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  Speaker 5: as HOOD started collecting data on veteran homelessness in two
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  Speaker 5: thousand and nine. The report noted good because they paid
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  Speaker 5: their dues. What did our Lord say about the poor?
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  Speaker 5: For you have the four always with you, but me
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  Speaker 5: you have not always. For that she had poorthless ointment
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  Speaker 5: on my body. She did it for my burial, barely
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  Speaker 5: on saying to you, who's whoever, this gospel shall be
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  Speaker 5: preached in the whole world. The should also this that
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  Speaker 5: this woman have done, be told for memorial of her
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  Speaker 5: and before those of you, whoever you are. Takes this
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  Speaker 5: out of context, reads the total chapter to see rather
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  Speaker 5: than take out the verse to fit what you or
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  Speaker 5: you or you wanted to say. Remember now there was
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  Speaker 5: Judas Askaria who portrayed our savior, and he had a
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  Speaker 5: problem with this, even though he could care less about
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  Speaker 5: the poor, he had a problem with that of what
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  Speaker 5: she was doing for our saving, and the saving was
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  Speaker 5: making it clear, which is true today. Our Savior was
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  Speaker 5: not always going to be with us them at the time,
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  Speaker 5: but the poor would always be look out today around
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  Speaker 5: the globe your country, your country, your country and mind,
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  Speaker 5: your community, your community, your community in mind. So what
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  Speaker 5: is your excuse, those of you who claim you care
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  Speaker 5: about the poor, You care about the homeless, you care
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  Speaker 5: about the down tropping, you know, the helpless, the hope
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  Speaker 5: of the hurting, the homeless, And as you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: a place with all skin tone. But today, today, today,
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  Speaker 5: as we prepare for twenty twenty five, I'm speaking of
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  Speaker 5: my community. Say what tell you always start at home?
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  Speaker 5: Remember our Savior started with his own community first. And
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  Speaker 5: speaking of my community, which is the plicable to all communities,
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  Speaker 5: let's start and end with black men. Remember our Savior
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  Speaker 5: started with his community. How about we starting or restarting
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  Speaker 5: with the God of the scriptures. I mean, really knowing
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  Speaker 5: where you came from and who you really belong to.
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  Speaker 5: And if we're right with God, we're going to be
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  Speaker 5: right with ourselves and others. But how about getting the
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  Speaker 5: right as God lead not you with someone else. It's
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  Speaker 5: time for us to get right with the ladies in
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  Speaker 5: our life and vice versa. And I'm speaking to men,
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  Speaker 5: but it is time for us to get right with
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  Speaker 5: the ladies in our lives and the children. And if
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  Speaker 5: they're no longer here, you know, like I always say
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  Speaker 5: to people, you know, whoever comes to your heart and mind,
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  Speaker 5: take an empty chair, lay it all out. And if
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  Speaker 5: they hurt you, leay it all out. Because you got
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  Speaker 5: to remember now, forgiveness is one of the most powerful
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  Speaker 5: words in him language, and it's shown by God's forgiveness
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  Speaker 5: of sin. So when someone does wrong against you, they'll
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  Speaker 5: be a terrible guilt. Likewise, when we refuse to forgive
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  Speaker 5: it wrong, we become part of the problem. And when
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  Speaker 5: God's people practice forgiveness, you guess what it replaces harshness.
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  Speaker 5: You can't force another person to have a spirit of forgiveness,
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  Speaker 5: but you can show it by how you react. And
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  Speaker 5: we got to keep it real. It's not always possible
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  Speaker 5: to men of broken relationship because there's some people is
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  Speaker 5: gonna refuse to accept responsibility for what they've done, always
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  Speaker 5: blaming somebody else for what has happened. But we got
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  Speaker 5: to be willing to go to the extra mount and
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  Speaker 5: have to be reconciled with someone else who has turned
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  Speaker 5: against you, and remember always to pray for them, because
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  Speaker 5: you've got to remember to treat others as you yourself
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  Speaker 5: would like to be treated, like Luketer six verse thirty
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  Speaker 5: one talks about. And you can see a powerful example
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  Speaker 5: of this in the life of Joseph. You do remember Joseph,
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  Speaker 5: don't you remember how his brothers were jealous of him
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  Speaker 5: and sold him into slavery. But as the Old Testament's
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  Speaker 5: story unfolds in Jenesis fifty, we see that Joseph didn't
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  Speaker 5: hold it against them. The Lord used Joseph to save
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  Speaker 5: his family and even the whole nation. And because of
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  Speaker 5: Joseph's demonstration of forgiveness, he was blessed of God. And
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  Speaker 5: we can't find it in our hearts to forgive within
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  Speaker 5: our own family. We will never show this attribute of
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  Speaker 5: Christ with others. And know God's bless him.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 5: In Matthew chapter six, verse fourteen, it says, well, if
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  Speaker 5: you forgive men or women, remember generic their trespassers. You
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  Speaker 5: having the Father, will also forgive you. And we got
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  Speaker 5: to always remember what our saviors said from the Cross
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  Speaker 5: about those who were crucifying him. He said in Luke,
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  Speaker 5: chapter twenty three, verse thirty four, Father, forgive them, for
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  Speaker 5: they do not know what they do. Say what, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and just remember if you've done all you can do,
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  Speaker 5: go on and move forward. It's time to get up
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  Speaker 5: men in twenty twenty five. But we got to get
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  Speaker 5: up by leading by example in our own lives, in
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  Speaker 5: our own community, in our own homes, total at our
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  Speaker 5: own place of worships, on the job after, in the
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  Speaker 5: educational world, the political world, all those world systems. Hold on,
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  Speaker 5: wait a minute, it's applicable to you men of other
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  Speaker 5: communities as well. And ladies, you ever standing the role
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  Speaker 5: as well. All that was just shared with the men
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  Speaker 5: is applicable to you as well. Say what yes, that's
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  Speaker 5: what I just said. It is applicable to everybody. But
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  Speaker 5: you already knew that, didn't you.
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  Speaker 1: Te people who are.
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  Speaker 2: Dark food, don't let us hang around this town.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what does say come true, which is good
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  Speaker 1: for nothing. They are hope be given a boy's grown
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  Speaker 1: up shop his chin.
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  Speaker 2: Now we can't harder and stand for that, or is
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  Speaker 2: that real way?
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  Speaker 5: We people.
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  Speaker 1: Who were dark within the food. We got no time
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  Speaker 1: to segregame. Let's talk about around.
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  Speaker 2: And go to.
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  Speaker 1: How you ever gave?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Can't you care? You're just the surface of our dull people.
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  Speaker 1: If the man could you see me? You know you
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  Speaker 1: can't sames me.
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me, brother, as you stand in your.
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  Speaker 1: Glory, I know you, old man. If I tell the
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  Speaker 1: whole story yourself to get gives, learn to take the right.
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  Speaker 1: I'm committing all siss without even the all constant problems
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  Speaker 1: in the hell of myself. The peace came on, show
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  Speaker 1: the face right today's level. But as class cops last.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know we have great respect who for the
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  Speaker 1: surcer and mother? You see even nothing is but there's
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  Speaker 1: a joker in the street, loving one brother and killing
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  Speaker 1: the others. When the time comes and we are ready free,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be no brothers left. Or see wee people who
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  Speaker 1: were dark at don't let us hang around this town
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  Speaker 1: and that when the same untrue? Which has goodn't the
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  Speaker 1: man and they are can a boy not supposed chill? Now?
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  Speaker 2: We can't hardly stand for death or as that referees
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  Speaker 2: heard me, brother, as he stands.
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  Speaker 1: In your glory your medio, I know your old man
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  Speaker 1: in my talor, the whole story harden me.
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  Speaker 2: I know we've come alone long way
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  Speaker 1: But let us not be so senseman, but tomorrow can
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  Speaker 1: be an even bright of day, so