How to end homelessness | Marybeth Shinn | TEDxNashvilleSalon

Homelessness is a housing problem. We know how to end it. We just need the political will. Marybeth Shinn studies how to prevent and end homelessness to create opportunities for groups that face social exclusion. Beth teaches research methods, including Community Inquiry, which is the introductory methods course for doctoral students, Public Policy Development and Advocacy, and Philanthropy and Social Problem Solving. Funded by the Philanthropy Lab, students study community needs and decide how to give away $50,000 or more.
Beth chairs the Community Research and Action admissions committee and serves on the Shared Governance Committee for the University. Locally, Beth serves on the Governance Committee for Nashville’s Continuum of Care. She also served on the Healthy Nashville leadership Council. At the national level, she serves on advisory boards for the National Alliance to End Homelessness and the National Low Income Housing Coalition and the Board of Directors for the Partnership for the Homeless in New York City. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@martinbrousseau2560]

Unfortunately housing is the quick n easier answer. The long answer also requires looking at mental health care, community, hobbies, learning new skills.

[@SpeedOfNorris]

Great TedXTalk Marybeth Shinn! I agree with your steps to take on improving the lives of unhoused people.

[@GiselleReviews]

Wonderfully, stated and thanks for the Ted talk. ❤❤❤💯

[@gloricaaxox]

Wow, this is really powerful and so well put. I hope more people continue to think like this and share this message. Coming from Colombia and living in Canada now, I have seen a lot and it has always broke my heart to see the injustice in the world. Thank you for sharing this message.

[@alexisabercrombie133]

Put in the resources.

[@gplunk]

The real issue with the Sec. 8 voucher system is the difficulty in finding a landlord who will accept one. Even though there are many HUD properties out there; they typically have long wait lists for an actual unit. Other non gov't assisted properties will covertly deny voucher tenants; simply by not responding to their query, or stating that there are no current vacancies....

[@jamesphillips5073]

Here in Tucson, landlords are no longer allowed to decline Section 8 vouchers.

[@kevinharrison3265]

Amen Sister! ❤

[@georgewagner7787]

In new york, shelters are the only affordable housing now.

[@joerobi2652]

Nothing is going to change, the video is a year old and homeless just keeps getting worse. I've been homeless for three years. I don't even dream of living in a home again. Homes are a luxury like private jets and yachts. We need to start teaching children how to survive without a home in schools because this problem is never going to get better.

[@talesin7070]

Look I didn't know your story, but I've been homeless for a year and a half. It's tough and getting tougher. Keep looking until you find a program that can help you is all I can say. One day we'll fix this.

[@AntonioGracia-bl2mu]

Even though i might unrecognizable I'm still alive.

[@matthewdancz9152]

You know, you could just CAP rental prices. This will force all these private equity investing companies from jacking rental rates through the roof, and they will begin looking at other parts of the economy to destroy with over investment.

[@matthewdancz9152]

I can also point out that 30% of $0.00 is $0.00. Gaining employment, which seems to be increasingly rare in the AI dominated world is becoming harder and harder. Autistic individuals are the most impacted. Homelessness will never be ended as long as bad actors seek to make money through rental payments on properties they don't own. The problem is over priced rental units, but this problem will never go aways as the demand for rentals is always increasing and there is little economic incentive for the private sector to build more units to make prices come down. It isn't about political will, as most of our political elite make their money using the current free market incentives. They don't fix the problem, because they have every personal interest reason to not fix it, and no genuine reason to fix the problem. Their children are set for life.

[@RuneValken]

Let's say they cap rents at 1000/month. Mortgages, property taxes, utilities, repair costs, and insurance keep going up. When those costs exceed the rents no one would keep rentals. They'd sell them to owner occupants or at best be slumlords, because they can't afford repairs. For rents to go down you have to make it cheaper to buy or build a house or apartments.

[@EliStettner]

Y'all should add some subtitles

[@matieurod752]

Some valuable points made here by her certainly. But her simply stating , Oh and the solution is housing , when I’m the beginning stating that’s all she hears from people In meetings she attends . Nice Ted talk though mam !

[@ivanpadilla1936]

Another factor is giving the homeless purpose in life. If someone is used to living on the streets and doing whatever they want, then assimilating into the “normal world” will be close to impossible.

[@michaelsantangelo6192]

Rich people simply don't care about homeless people at all.

[@georgewagner7787]

Untrue. My bil is wealthy and is on the board of a nonprofit that trains young men for employment

[@santeria504]

@@georgewagner7787 what happens when people who aren't Young becomes homeless

[@hippieJOSH420]

Raising the minimum wage actually creates more homelessness. The answer is to reduce the cost of living

[@claytonmorada]

The research I have read says the opposite of this statement. Where are your citations?

[@hippieJOSH420]

@@claytonmorada My citations are the history since we've 've been raising minimum wage since the late '80s. Every time. Minimum wage hikes the homeless population hikes. If you're going to double what the federal momentum wage is then you're going to eat up the middle class. The guy making $11 an hour now is going to make the same amount as the guy that was making 7.25. The guy that is making $16 an hour which was more than double of minimum wage will not only be making a dollar more than minimum wage. You can't keep raising minimum wage and not expecting prices to increase which hurts everybody. The only thing that benefits everybody is lowering the cost of living and that can be done the same way as raising the minimum wage, through legislation

[@talesin7070]

So incredibly wrong. Cost of living is always going to increase because of inflation. Minimum wage should at least increase at the speed of inflation.

[@brianhay4024]

Her ideas seem aspirational at best and not grounded in reality.

[@svtjones]

She is only has book knowledge in regards to homelessness and drug abuse. She obviously walked the streets, interacted with the people and seen what really goes on. That’s the problem with people like her. They make plans for fixes that aren’t based in reality. Her “fixes” work for some on the streets, but don’t work for the majority. I’d can talk about this for hours.

[@nazlozcelik255]

Why humans only thinking own. This' s looking world and world economic problems but if thinking everything we saw it.. people dead peole cry ...

[@usanahall7714]

omg that is all cap

[@kevinspangler4907]

Resentment is the root

[@georgewagner7787]

Not also. Instead. Build affordable housing now. Don't throw money down the toilet by subsidizing People's rent for years on end. Build them housing

[@AntonioGracia-bl2mu]

No I didn't still alive.

[@MarySchipke-dg7dg]

Homelessness is "Big Business" and the Homeless Industrial Complex will always profit from the misery of the homeless. Cut these thieves and frauds out of the homeless equation and homelessness will disappear. Issue gov't homeless benefits to the homeless - like disability checks to the disabled or unemployment checks to the unemployed.

[@the_yungchubbz]

If you close your eyes, this lady sounds like an intellectual Kermit. 😂

[@bryanrusth338]

Clearly this lady has never interacted with a homeless person

[@RainDude]

Ha....They will never end homeless....people wake up! Homelessness is used as leverage. Not to mention all the people getting rich helping the homeless. Basically it's like this. Homeless people are worth more homeless than they are in houses. Wake up.

[@masondrip42]

damn

[@RuneValken]

I can think of very few people who could profit off of homelessness. But very many who profit off of you owning a home. Every plumber, roofer, electrician, landscaper, etc. Every Home Depot or Lowes or home decorating store benefits from you having a home.

[@masondrip42]

both realities are true. the homeless are a leveraging tool for the rich, middle class and lower middle class. while simultaneously every home owner is sucked dry while told her happy you’re in the home owners club. the homeless doesn’t gain anything from its perceptional power; and the homeowner never quites gets the feeling of being in power over anything but it’s right to be enslaved by agenda politics, western culture and american greed.

[@AntonioGracia-bl2mu]

No I'm white actually,but I'm alive

[@jordanmensah3116]

She sounds like kermit the frog

[@KoreyThatcher]

Why don’t we just get rid of paying rent and have the federal government buy the rental homes and give them to the renters? Also get rid of mortgages. Everyone has already been paid. Nobody loses anything

[@masondrip42]

the most hippie thing i’ve heard in my life. i don’t agree with the government daddy paying for everyone’s house.

[@aco762]

Right….Wow what an innovative idea! It’s not like we have examples of this in the world that have tried this. Such as Cuba. Some people don’t think before they speak.

[@usanahall7714]

cap