Facilities sheltering unhoused people have become COVID-19 hotspots. But how did these communal living facilities become our primary response to homelessness in the first place?
Generations of discriminatory housing policy, and lending practices that favored white borrowers, have entrenched segregation and inequality in American cities.
This season, we explore the history and policies that help make sense of this current moment, a time where issues of wealth and poverty feel even more stark than usual. New episodes start May 13.
