{"id":417,"date":"2022-12-08T10:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T18:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/homelessness\/behind-the-scenes-of-our-investigation-locked-out-homeless-in-long-beach"},"modified":"2023-04-25T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T22:00:22","slug":"behind-the-scenes-of-our-investigation-locked-out-homeless-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/news\/behind-the-scenes-of-our-investigation-locked-out-homeless-in-long-beach","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes of our investigation &#8216;Locked Out: Homeless in Long Beach&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Behind the scenes of our investigation &#039;Locked Out: Homeless in Long Beach&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8ZDE70EX7s?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>Over the last several months, the Long Beach Post has <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\">been investigating<\/a> why our city and so many others across the state seem unable to solve the problem of homelessness despite a record influx of money.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of our ongoing series called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\">Locked Out: Homeless in Long Beach<\/a>\u201d is to understand how government funding is being spent to address the issue, what resources the unhoused have and how the system can better address the needs of those living on the street.<\/p>\n<p>What you won\u2019t see in our stories or our videos\u2014at least until now\u2014are the personal emotions, frustrations and realizations we&#8217;ve come to while telling the stories of those who are currently homeless. On today\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Word\u201d podcast, Long Beach Post\u2019s Executive Editor Melissa Evans talks about the emotional impact of her work.<\/p>\n<p>Visit our investigative series homepage <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\">here<\/a>. Hear the audio version of the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/theword.simplecast.com\/episodes\/the-word-jackie-rae-the-very-human-and-emotional-aspect-of-homelessness\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>To support this kind of work, you can make a tax-deductible donation <a href=\"https:\/\/givebutter.com\/lbpost2022\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HYwQhH2rqy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/old.lbpost.com\/news\/christian-outreach-in-action-wants-people-to-know-homeless-services-improve-life-in-urban-areas\">Christian Outreach in Action wants people to know homeless services improve life in urban areas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Christian Outreach in Action wants people to know homeless services improve life in urban areas&#8221; &#8212; News\" src=\"https:\/\/old.lbpost.com\/news\/christian-outreach-in-action-wants-people-to-know-homeless-services-improve-life-in-urban-areas\/embed\/#?secret=N54cqvIgHR#?secret=HYwQhH2rqy\" data-secret=\"HYwQhH2rqy\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last several months, the Long Beach Post has been investigating why our city and so many others across the state seem unable to solve the problem of homelessness despite a record influx of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"_":"field_619dbb8f5d947","_author_alias":"field_5bdcbfe4b60c2","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[97,95,86,35,96,87,84],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[88],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-health-care","tag-homeless","tag-jackie-rae","tag-locked-out","tag-mental-health","tag-podcast","tag-the-word","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":633,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/investigations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}