Growing Shelf-Awareness

Reporter Katie Mingle wonders why the 211 hotline in the San Francisco Bay Area for people experiencing homelessness so often turns out to be a dead end for them.

Every week, Chelsea Merz has lunch with a homeless man named Matthew, in the same restaurant.

Isaiah Thompson tells the story of the Julia Tuttle Causeway in Miami, a bridge that became home to a population of sex offenders, after a powerful lobbyist named Ron Book helped make it illegal for them live almost anywhere else in the city.

Stephanie Foo talks with two Army officers with very different political views about the week’s results.

Several people who just woke up on red-eye flights talk about their dreams.

Lots of people in America share actual beds, but almost never see each other; flight attendants have crash pads near airports, oil rig workers carry their own sheets and sleep in shifts in an RV.