f{"id":51504,"date":"2026-10-06T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=51504"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T00:56:53","slug":"51504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/51504\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t We End Homelessness? | Real Time with Bill Maher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Can&amp;apos;t We End Homelessness? | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MvzPPOhod4s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Real Time with Bill Maher Oct 2, 2026 Fareed Zakaria and Anand Giridharadas join Bill to discuss why homelessness remains a pervasive problem despite billions of dollars in spending.<\/p>\n<p>Google AI Overview<\/p>\n<p>The person you are thinking of is Anand Giridharadas, an Indian-American author, journalist, and frequent commentator.<br \/>\nDuring an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher discussing why homelessness remains an entrenched problem, Giridharadas pointed out that cities are unfairly criticized for having large homeless populations. He highlighted that a significant percentage of homeless youth in major cities (particularly LGBTQ youth) actually come from rural areas or small towns where their families failed or rejected them\u2014often choosing &#8220;a verse in a book&#8221; over their child&#8217;s face\u2014driving them out of states like Nebraska, Florida, or Idaho to seek refuge in major cities like San Francisco, New York, and Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Time with Bill Maher Oct 2, 2026 Fareed Zakaria and Anand Giridharadas join Bill to discuss why homelessness remains a pervasive problem despite billions of dollars in spending. Google AI Overview The person you are thinking of is Anand Giridharadas, an Indian-American author, journalist, and frequent commentator. During an&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/10\/06\/51504\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51509,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions\/51509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}