
NYC's Shelter System; How Hochul's Housing Plan Could Be Revived; Israel's Judicial Reform and Jewish Americans; Is Pickleball Tearing Your Community Apart?
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 3, 2023
On today's show:
- The city's shelter system is full as thousands of migrants continue to make their way to New York. Andy Newman, New York Times reporter covering social services and poverty in the New York Metro Region, shares his reporting on the scene outside an intake center at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown, and Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, talks about what the Adams administration is thinking about doing to try to find space for everyone looking for a bed.
- Gov. Hochul's housing plan, which failed in Albany last spring, has left many working-class New Yorkers vulnerable. Ross Barkan, contributor to The New York Times Magazine and columnist for Crain's, discusses why it received so much pushback, and a proposal for how the housing plan could be revived.
- Ron Kampeas, Washington bureau chief at news agency, Jewish Telegraphic Agency discusses how Jewish Americans are reacting to a controversial judicial overhaul by the right-wing Israeli government. The new law severely weakens the Israeli judicial branch, and American Jewish groups have been quick to respond.
- A Canadian couple recently went on hunger strike in protest of the noise associated with the explosively popular sport, pickleball. Listeners make their cases for whether pickleball is the perfect outdoor summer activity or the bane of their existence.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.


