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Jamie Lopez
61:46 - 62:10
“4 years, 10,000 hours of field outreach experience, 3 years past, I've been doing it since exiting homelessness, spent all of my savings. And more or less what I've been watching play out is nobody will pay to do this sort of job. They're afraid of liability.”
- Speaker
- Jamie Lopez
- Timestamp
- 61:46 – 62:10
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 10, 2026
From the transcript
And so that number really does not reflect those people. That are being housed. Aside from all that, 4 years, 10,000 hours of field outreach experience, 3 years past, I've been doing it since exiting homelessness, spent all of my savings. And more or less what I've been watching play out is nobody will pay to do this sort of job. They're afraid of liability.
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