Service is the Rent We Pay

Service is the Rent We Pay

From LVL With Us by Homeport

November 6, 2025 · 19 min · Season 2 · Episode 10

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of community support and the challenges faced by social service programs.

For part two of my conversation with Tasha Booker, CEO of Action for Children, we begin with a commentary on the brevity of pilot programs like Success Bridge and Healthy Beginnings at Home that get so much initial funding, impact a few hundred people, and then are never scaled up or extended. From there we make a call to action. As our community faces higher costs of living and our social service sector is threatened and weakened, it falls on all of us to do whatever we can to protect each other. American civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman famously said “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”

People in this episode

Host: Homeport

Guest: Tasha Booker

Topics covered

  • social services
  • community support
  • pilot programs
  • civil rights
  • cost of living

Keywords

  • service
  • community
  • social service sector
  • pilot programs
  • cost of living

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Action for Children

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