Homeless Unfiltered from Invisible People

What if AI could spot the warning signs before someone loses their home? A layoff. Not being able to feed the kids. A first trip to the food bank. An eviction notice. In this episode with Iain De Jong, we talk about how artificial intelligence could show us which neighborhoods are losing housing, so help gets there before people end up on the street.We also get into why we call homeless people "service resistant" when the services often don't work, why finding an open shelter bed is harder than booking a hotel, and why moving into housing is tougher than anyone admits.Then the biggest question: if we're housing more people, why does homelessness keep growing? Iain explains why a community trying to cut homelessness by 15% may need to house three times as many people as it planned. Change starts when enough people understand what's broken and start working to fix it. Watch or listen, and share it with someone who cares about ending homelessness.

Why do some videos attract millions of views while great content goes unnoticed?The truth is, creating good content isn't enough. You have to understand what makes people click, watch, and share.In this episode, I sit down with Leslie Morgan, CEO of ClockwiseTV, who brings 18 years of experience in the creator economy, working with creator-led businesses and global production companies.We explore what successful YouTubers understand about capturing attention, why nonprofits often struggle to reach audiences, and how better storytelling, titles, thumbnails, and distribution can make all the difference. We also discuss AI and the changing creator economy.Whether you're a nonprofit leader, filmmaker, journalist, or content creator, this conversation will challenge how you think about making videos people actually want to watch.

Barbara Poppe has spent more than 40 years fighting homelessness, helped lead the Obama administration’s historic effort to end it, and today she has something most people in public service rarely have: the freedom to tell the truth.Barb is one of the smartest people I know on homelessness and someone I’m honored to call a friend. In this deeply personal conversation, we talk about how America once moved toward ending homelessness, why we’re now going backwards, and the painful reality that the solutions we knew 40 years ago are largely the same solutions we know today.Barb takes on criminalization, misinformation, lived experience, affordable housing, and the policy choices that keep people homeless.Her message is both devastating and hopeful: We know how to house every single person. We could do it. We’re choosing not to.Effective Homelessness Advocacy Messaging Toolkit https://invisiblepeople.tv/toolkit

A for-profit company working to end homelessness sounds like a contradiction. For Mike Shore, it’s been his family’s work for more than 30 years.Mike runs HOM Inc., a mission-driven for-profit company helping communities manage the complicated work of getting homeless people into housing. We talk about whether profit can actually be a force for good, why homeless services have become so complicated, and whether business, technology, and a different way of organizing the work could help us do better.Mike and I go way back, all the way to the early days of Twitter, when social media was actually fun. We were experimenting with a new way to talk about homelessness, building unlikely communities online, breaking some rules, and occasionally getting ourselves into trouble.We talk about whether profit can actually be a force for good, why homeless services can be so frustratingly complicated, what business and technology can bring to the fight against homelessness, and what we lost when social media stopped feeling social.Today’s Homeless Unfiltered podcast is sponsored by Padmission Journey: https://padmission.com/invisiblepeoplePadmission Journey is an end-to-end housing program management platform built specifically for homeless housing programs. It helps organizations manage rental assistance, rent calculations, inspections, payments, and other complex housing processes in one place, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected systems with modern tools that make the work easier.

What happens when the systems meant to prevent homelessness start failing the very people they were built to help?Mary Francis Kenyon, Chief Equity Officer at the National Alliance to End Homelessness, joins me for a deeply personal conversation that starts with her own journey through addiction and recovery and expands into a much bigger story about homelessness in America.We talk about the safety net that helped Mary Francis recover, why rural homelessness is so often invisible, the growing crisis facing older adults and people with disabilities, and why housing, treatment, harm reduction, recovery housing, and other solutions shouldn’t be pitted against each other.Then we get into the political and legal fight over the Trump administration’s homelessness policies and what could happen to people who have already fought their way out of homelessness.At the heart of our conversation is a simple idea: leave no one behind.UPDATE: Since this conversation was recorded, a federal judge vacated HUD’s 2026 Continuum of Care funding notice. The Trump administration and HUD have appealed that ruling, so the legal fight continues.