Jeff Olivet, Dr. Howard K. Koh and Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum: The Unhoused: Health, Humanity, and the Soul of a Nation

Homelessness:  A Public Health Crisis Recent data shows that every night, in communities large and small across the United States, over 750,000 people experienced homelessness.  Behind every number is a life interrupted, families displaced, people struggling not just to survive, but to reclaim stability, dignity, and hope.  To better understand issues ranging from hands-on outreach to leadership roles shaping national strategy, Jeff Olivet, the former Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), hosts a conversation with two of the foremost practitioners and thought leaders on the issue:  Dr. Howard K. Koh, former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and Professor of Public Health Leadership at Harvard, and Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum, CEO of Two Elevate and former leader of Los Angeles’s homelessness response. Together, they explore how homelessness and its impacts - and why prevention and compassion must guide national action.  Through research, lived experience, and deep humanity, they reveal what it will take to create a society where everyone has a safe place to call home.