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Ben Maher and Anthony Buono
Episode 29: Trump's Eligibility Challenged, Iowa Coming Up, and a Deep Dive on Housing First
2 hour Posted Jan 6, 2024 at 5:39 am.
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This week's current events:

  • Maine and Colorado both say Trump can't be on the ballot
  • Trump claims immunity from criminal trials based on being acquitted in his impeachment trial
  • Trump works to secure Iowa
  • Nikki Haley stumbles when asked about the Civil War
  • The Biden administration produced rules for the new hydrogen tax credit which requires making the hydrogen with clean energy
  • The New York Times is the first media company to sue a tech company based on their chatbot, going after Microsoft and OpenAI
  • Updates to the war in Gaza
  • Israel's highest court shot down legislation attempting to restrict the court's power
  • The residential real estate market has slowed with rising interest rates
  • Infant death rates rose in Texas after its 6-week abortion ban
  • U.S. manufacturing output might be turning a corner
  • Chairman Xi sounds a bit more pessimistic about China's economy

In this week's deep dive, we look at the policy widely known as Housing First. Housing First seeks to end homelessness by giving homeless people stable, permanent housing, as opposed to "Treatment First" models which consider some people not ready to be housed and requires progression through treatment steps to get them there. We discuss the research on Housing First, what it achieves and what it does not, and some examples of local and state-level programs run in the U.S.