Homeless in San Diego

About Homeless in San Diego

Homeless in San Diego: Real People, Real Stories, is a podcast created by Interfaith Community Services, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization located in North San Diego County. Hosted by Greg Anglea, CEO of Interfaith Community Services, each episode features a local professional's perspective on the issue of homelessness, as well as shares the real story of an individual or family who has experienced homelessness in San Diego.

Publisher

Interfaith Community Services

Category

education · news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Jun 2018

Latest episode

2 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 139 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Tyler Renner

   Host Greg Anglea interviews PATH's Senior Director of Communications, Tyler Renner, about his career, restorative justice, and statewide homelessness solutions.

2. 

   22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Phylicia Applewhite

   This month on Homeless in San Diego, we welcomed Senior Coordinated Entry System Specialist Phylicia Applewhite from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness (RTFH). Phylicia provides a detailed breakdown of the homelessness service systems that are in San Diego and shares her own lived experience. Listen to our brand-new episode to learn more about the systems and resources in San Diego County. Show links: https://www.rtfhsd.org/ https://www.rtfhsd.org/reports-data/ https://www.rtfhsd.org/about-coc/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/phylicia-applewhite-2a2290160/

3. 

   11 Mar 2026

   Jordan Verdin

   This week on Homeless in San Diego, we are honored to welcome Jordan Verdin, Founder of Humanity Showers and Street Stories. Host and Interfaith CEO Greg Anglea was thrilled to sit down and discuss his admirable work. Jordan created Humanity Showers, a 100% volunteer project that now provides over 2,000 mobile showers each month across San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles Counties. . His next initiative, Street Stories, aims to interview every single person experiencing homelessness in Oceanside to highlight their individual stories and challenge the stigma and stereotypes surrounding homelessness. Links: https://www.instagram.com/jordanverdin/ https://www.humanityshowers.org/ https://streetstories.com/

Inside a recent episode

Tyler Renner

Published 2 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And I think that we need to look at it as a collective responsibility and not an individual failure if someone falls into homelessness. And so what do you do to try to build that collective responsibility and change that dynamic either on an individual level or on a community level through your work at PATH as Senior Director of Communications? Yeah, so I think communications is important to really balance the narrative that's out there. I think there's this narrative that we see in the media in our community that solutions don't work hope you know homelessness is hopeless there's nothing that's going to alleviate this crisis so i think really balancing the narrative and informing people educating them inspiring them to believe in the services that we provide to believe that there's things that work And that's what I think storytelling really can do is to change people's perceptions that, you know, this is a hopeless issue because it's not. […]

Who has been a guest on Homeless in San Diego

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tyler Renner
• Brother Batie
• Mario Melgoza

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

38 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

57

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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