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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    KCRW’s ‘Samaritans’: A shelter to call home, for now

    KCRW’s Anna Scott spent more than a year with Christine Curtiss as she tried to find housing. Scott tried to learn why it’s so challenging to solve LA’s homelessness problem.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 11, 2020 • 1 min read

    KCRW’s Anna Scott spent more than a year with Christine Curtiss as she tried to find housing. Scott tried to learn why it’s so challenging to solve LA’s homelessness problem.

    In the fourth and final part of the “Samaritans” series, Curtiss moves into a new women’s shelter. But her future is still uncertain.

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    LA has more reopenings, more coronavirus cases
    1. 0:00LA Supervisor Kathryn Barger: County keeps reopening deliberately and cautiously
    2. 12:36Companies say they support Black Lives Matter. What real action are they taking?
    3. 19:56KCRW’s ‘Samaritans’: A shelter to call home, for nowYou’re reading this
    4. 40:12Comedian Alonzo Bodden gets political: Black Lives Matter, ‘defund the police’ rallying cry
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Sarah Sweeney

      Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW

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      Michell Eloy

      Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    LA has more reopenings, more coronavirus cases
    1. 0:00LA Supervisor Kathryn Barger: County keeps reopening deliberately and cautiously
    2. 12:36Companies say they support Black Lives Matter. What real action are they taking?
    3. 19:56KCRW’s ‘Samaritans’: A shelter to call home, for nowYou’re reading this
    4. 40:12Comedian Alonzo Bodden gets political: Black Lives Matter, ‘defund the police’ rallying cry
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