I ate a cheeseburger at Katie’s house in 2005. Apparently she’s still awesome. Great pod.

Such a great show. Powerful, informative and moving. This was by far one of the best shows I’ve listened to.

Great show, engaging and informative without being depressing.

Excellent job showing the complexities of homeless services from direct care staff to administrators and the people doing the work and those we serve. I laughed, I cried and I appreciate this podcast so very much.

One of the best. I hope it gets a wide audience and many awards

Incredible work! Eye opening and extremely informative work on a subject that’s often misunderstood and widely criticized. Thank you for putting this out there!

I couldn’t help myself and listened to the whole show in one day. I thought I knew a lot about the subject of homelessness, but this series opened my eyes to ideas and struggles I knew nothing about. I’m an educator, and this made me feel even more passionate about advocating for my unhoused students - and for fighting for changes that will reduce homelessness in general.

Thank you so much! Put this on during a walk at 6:30 this morning and it’s 1030 now. Digested the entire series with my heart and soul. Feeling so grateful to have had your two year experience packaged in a way that was meaningful and thorough.

Congratulations on winning the 2022 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. Looking forward to listening to the series again.

Very informative without any virtue signaling or shaming.

I’ve pretty thoroughly retreated from my pre-pandemic diet of public interest stories, New Yorker articles, news podcasts. Because they’re all reported from basements? Because they just make me feel more stuck at home? I’m not totally sure why or why this series feels different. But it does. Maybe something about the vividness of the characters and the reporter's genuine empathy.

Most often, empathy comes from being able to put yourself in someone’s shoes. The incredible reporting by Katie Mingle in this series puts a humanizing face to the houselessness that I’ve seen daily in the multiple cities I’ve lived in. It has galvanized me to do something more proactive in my community to improve this system and I hope it does the same for you. Please listen and share!

Essential listening for anyone who cares about homelessness in America. Katie Mingle explains, through stories about the homeless and the people trying to help them, how the system works – or doesn’t-for so many. Their stories are often heart rending, yet by the end there is reason to be hopeful.

This audio series is essential for current contexts on the issue of homelessness and the inefficient system that it supposed to be the solution. We ALL need to be part of the solution, or at least understand how it could work better. The roadblocks that prevent those underserved from finding their footing affect ALL OF US. Katie Mingle approaches conversations and interviews with respect and humility and lets the story flow from those with experience. Any listener will have a different perspective and judgment after listening to According to Need.

Wow! Excellent short-series podcast reporting on homelessness in Oakland, CA, which easily translates to all cities’ homeless population. We are all one paycheck, hospital bill, medical need ... away from being homeless.

I learned so much listening to this series! Homelessness is, in some ways, a more complex problem than I had understood — but this show makes it clear that, as a society, we are choosing to let people live in unsafe situations, and we can and must do better. This is essential listening for all of us sharing our communities with unhoused people.

Simply put - you need to listen to this story. If this is a story you can relate to, listen. If this is foreign to you - listen to the stories of others. No matter what this is worth your time.

One of my favorite mini-series to date. It’s a well-written and produced deep dive into a complicated topic, exploring multiple point of views with empathy and grace. More importantly, it focuses on an extremely topical concern and brings to light something that we all need to care more about

I always heard about how bad homelessness has become in California. The media covers it all of the time, but none of them have ever stopped and said why. Why is it so bad? What is being done about it? Both questions rarely ever asked or answered. According to Need does both. Like it’s parent show, 99% Invisible, the series beautifully posits these rarely ponders questions and then proceeds to answer them to the best of their ability. And the best part is each episode end with you wanting to know more. They encourage you to educate yourself. To learn more about what makes the system tick. Every single person should listen to this series. The sheer quality of this series is clear throughout. Katie Mingle and team did an amazing job on this. I greatly admire their dedication to telling the stories of those people who would usually go unheard. They made this big, scary, and confusing topic of homelessness feel within reach by making it human — not just some short segment on the nightly news.

This series does an amazing job interweaving stories of people who are homeless in the Bay Area with reporting on the structural causes of homelessness and the failures of the systems designed to provide housing for people on the edge. It’s a must listen.

This show has a ton of heart. Producer Katie Mingle brings a sensitive ear to the topic of homelessness, humanizing the families that live in tents and trailers throughout the Bay Area as she tries to navigate the beurocracy that's designed to help them. Surprisingly tender for such a heavy issue. Recommended for fans of Nice White Parents, Serial etc.

Extremely thoughtful and humane work on a topic that’s usually stigmatized and surrounded by misinformation. Cannot recommend enough!

This is my favorite podcast, and I listen to a lot! Mingle is an incredible reporter and storyteller who brings us right into the center of tough questions and impossible situations - elegantly straddling the divide between richly told personal experiences and their relations to institutional function, power, and structure. I’ve been recommending this podcast to friends, family, and students. I learned a lot, was totally rapt, and enjoyed every minute of this podcast and I’m sure you will too!

Essential listening for everyone interested in the problems and solutions of homelessness, especially if you live in the Bay Area. Well researched with compelling stories.

Everyone in the world should listen to this. Excellent reporting about an often overlooked problem and our failures at addressing it.

This is an amazing podcast with incredible reporting on a subject rife with misunderstanding. Hearing what the struggle of homelessness is like from those so familiar with it really moved me and broadened my understanding of the issues. Thank you Katie and the 99pi team for making this important contribution to the conversation.

Experiencing homelessness is very dehumanizing and Katie hasn’t fallen into that trap at all. Great series

A truly incredible series. I had no idea how homeless service agencies work, and the series brings to life the stories of people doing the real work. The show is heartbreaking, but by far the clearest, sharpest, and most compassionate introduction to the issue I could imagine.

This should be essential listening for anyone concerned about the increase of people who live without shelter in our cities. It dispels so many of the recurring dehumanizing myths around homelessness that come up on all Nextdoor discussions.