by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Nov 14, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Berlin-based American Spencer McDonald describes his path to becoming a professional filmmaker, from driving Lyft in San Francisco to interning for a filmmaker in Portland — while doing odd jobs from wild-berry harvesting to carpentry – and barely getting...
by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Oct 20, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Stephen Johnson is a twenty-something tech entrepreneur who splits his time between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It’s a lifestyle that’s actually far less pricey than you may imagine, because he’s a member of the co-living space PodShare, which...
by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Sep 22, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Elvina Beck, the founder of PodShare – a co-living space with five locations in Los Angeles and one in San Francisco – talks about moving from Russia as a child to Brooklyn with her family, then New Jersey, and subsequently Hollywood at 19. She discusses...
by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Aug 31, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
This episode introduces Elvina Beck, the owner and director of PodShare, a group of five (as of Aug. 2019) co-housing living spaces throughout Los Angeles along with one site in San Francisco. Elvina is also a resident – a ‘member’ – of PodShare, and she...
by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Jul 22, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
We continue to talk with housing reporter Anna Scott, this time about Renae, a woman she reported on who went from having a tenuous housing situation to having to live our of her car, a car she’s leasing through Uber, and how she wound up in that place through a...
by michaelshaw_sar@yahoo.com | Jun 26, 2019 | 2019, Uncategorized
Anna Scott is a full-time radio reporter for the Santa Monica-based NPR station KCRW, where she reports on housing issues in Los Angeles. She talks about her job, which involves talking to many people who are homeless or near homeless, and how she herself gets by,...
