Theo interviews Fred Vars, author of Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other on the intersection of houselessness and mental illness, and how failures at city, state, and federal levels to put housing first makes it more difficult than ever to be unhoused in the U.S. Also: an upcoming screening at Crushing Wheelchairs, a film with an unhoused cast and crew, and the long-term consequences of Spencer Pratt's ghoulish anti-unhoused language.

See Crushing Wheelchairs at Vidiots in LA, June 25th:

https://givebutter.com/crushing-wheelchairs-vidiots

More on Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other:

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/through-the-fire-fredrick-e-vars/1148151502?ean=9781493087839

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Theo attends an action opposing the continuing sweeps in DSA-endorsed candidate Hugo Soto-Martinez's district; then, he speaks with author and activist Nicole Lynn Lewis, who speaks on her own experience as a houseless student and parent, and on her latest book Student Parent: The Fight for Families, the Cost of Poverty, and the Power of College.

Order Nicole's book here: https://www.beacon.org/Student-Parent-P2452.aspx

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Theo is joined by Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk, who speaks on her work as a street doctor for the unhoused population of British Columbia, and on how Canada‘s treatment of their own unhoused population compares with the U.S.

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