"When he began documenting his experiences and those of his unhoused neighbors back in 2019, three people were dying on the streets of Los Angeles County per day. Now, according to just-released public health data from 2024, that number has doubled to an average of six deaths per day, making questions of who gets to live and exist in public more urgent than ever."
"Henderson unpacks the bipartisan machinery that perpetuates houselessness and renders unhoused people as disposable. He shares his analysis of how anti-camping ordinances like the one in Los Angeles function as "the new Jim Crow," how Democrats and Republicans are united in their war on the poor, and how AI-powered medical diagnostics for unhoused populations echo the Tuskegee experiments."
Theo Henderson, a former schoolteacher unhoused since 2013 after job loss and medical debt from diabetes, launched the "We the Unhoused" podcast in 2019 to document experiences of unhoused people in Los Angeles. His work has gained significant media attention through BBC, Los Angeles Times, VICE, and CNN, and he was named activist-in-residence at UCLA's Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy in 2022. Public health data from 2024 reveals that deaths among unhoused people in Los Angeles County have doubled from three to six per day since Henderson began his podcast. Henderson analyzes how anti-camping ordinances function as systemic tools of oppression, how both Democrats and Republicans perpetuate homelessness through policy, and draws parallels between AI-powered medical diagnostics for unhoused populations and historical medical exploitation like the Tuskegee experiments.
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