Press Play with Madeleine Brand Can a short-term fix help long-term homelessness? Apr. 15, 2019 Listen 50 min MORE Relly Brown, part of LA’s rapid re-housing program, stands in front of their building. Credit: Amy Ta. Los Angeles County leans on a temporary rental voucher program that critics call a short-term fix. From this Episode: How the Writers Guild protest could change the industry There is still no progress in the talks between writers and their agents about a new code of conduct. Usually, on the same side as their agents, now writers say that some... 13 min Can the president preemptively pardon someone? President Trump appears to be still considering a plan to shut down the southern border. 8 min Fire at Notre-Dame: what that means for Paris and the rest of the world The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris is burning. The world has just watched its spire fall. The cause of the fire is still unknown. The building of the gothic structure was... 7 min LA officials are housing more homeless people than ever before, but how? Relly Brown’s ground-floor apartment near MacArthur Park still resembles the hotel room it once was: four walls, no kitchen and a mattress that takes up half the floor. 8 min Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ and the cultural significance of black country music The number one track on the Billboard Top 100 Chart right now is called Old Town Road with Lil Nas X. 14 min Credits Host: Madeleine Brand Producers: Sarah Sweeney, Michell Eloy, Yael Even Or, Alexandra Sif Tryggvadottir, Caitlin Plummer, Rosalie Atkinson, Adriana Cargill, Rebecca Mooney, Amy Ta