PTH on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show again

 

On June 23, PTH represented again on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC radio.

As part of the Show's "Uncommon Economic Indicators" coverage of the current crisis -- and echoing Barbara Ehrenreich's recent New York Times piece "Too Poor to Make the News" -- the segment highlighted the practice of doubling up.   PTH'ers Letitia Ledan and Russell Pinsley spoke about having to crowd into apartments in a context of low incomes and high rents.  While tens of thousands of New Yorkers sleep on the street or in shelters, hundreds of thousands more are doubled-up without a home or space of their own.

Check out the audio here!

 

In case you missed it, PTH'er Rob Robinson was on the Brian Lehrer Show a month ago.... [video & audio]

 

 

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