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Social Class: Homelessness & Housing

This board surveys issues pertaining to homelessness throughout the world. The board interrogates homelessness by specifically focusing on issues related to housing, as well as the processes of gentrification, and ghettoization. To find even more images that explore issues pertaining to poverty and wealth, see our other boards under the title "Social Class."
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The system isn't broken. It was built this way. [click on this image to find a short clip and analysis of low wage working conditions under capitalism]
rooftop slums of Hong Kong. the poor trying to survive in a rich mans world
Photograph by Jonas Bendiksen/National Geographic Stock A young girl walks through Mumbai's Dharavi slum, home to about a million people. Many Indians live in modern suburbs and work in gleaming skyscrapers, but many more—a large majority—remain impoverished and trapped by tradition. [click on this image to find a short clip, which discusses the extreme conditions of extreme poverty in a Nairobi slum]

Social Class: Slum Housing & Coffin Homes

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(3of5)Criminalising Homelessness [Click on this image to find a visual ethnography exploring a day in the life of a homeless couple] NW NC--83% of homeless ppl are w/out a shelter bed; LA, CA--78% of homeless ppl are w/out a shelter bed. Since 2011, there has been an increase in US laws criminalising homelessness. 53% of cities have a ban on lying down & sitting in particular publc places. 43% of cities have a city-wide ban on sleeping in cars. 9% of cities have a city-wide ban on sharing food.
(5 of 5) Criminalising Homelessness Sources: National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, "Racial discrimination in housing and homelessness in the United States", July 3, 2014. National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, "No safe place: The criminalization of homeless in US cities", 2014. The National Center on Family Homelessness, 2010. United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, "Opening doors: Federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness", 2010.
(4 of 5) Criminalising Homelessness Follow this link to find a visual ethnography exploring a day in the life of a homeless and heroin-addicted married couple: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/videos/matrimony Average Cost to Serve the Homeless in the U.S.: $87/day to jail vs. $28/day shelter "I'm...baffled by the idea that people can be without shelter...and then be treated as criminals for being without shelter." ~ Nigel Rodley, United Nations Human Rights Committee chairperson

Social Class: Criminalizing Homelessness

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Did you know? 44% of homeless people are employed. Shouldn't work be an escape from poverty? [follow this link to find a bundle of clips related to the sociological study of social class and poverty: http://www.thesociologicalcinema.com/1/category/class/1.html] Source: www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/employment.html
Albuquerque's "There's a Better Way" program offers $9/hour day jobs to locals who are homeless. After their work is done, they're given food and shelter for the night. Photo credit: City of Albuquerque
(3 of 4) The Stats on the Homeless

Social Class: Homelessness & Work

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They're driving the prices up because they're buying all of it. Now they're reselling it for higher and higher prices and making huge profits. Some of them are charging ridiculous prices just to let other people use it. So now there are people who can't afford it even if some is available, because it costs so much. People are getting sick and dying because they don't have any! Oh wait. Did I say hand sanitizer? Housing. I meant housing. Damn autocorrect.
Hate knowing that not only could every renter buy a house, every renter actually IS buying a house - we are servicing a home loan, covering rates, and paying for repairs. We just don't get to KEEP the house - someone else does because they had capital and we didn't. ~ @cannibality
The housing market is one of the few parts of the economy that hasn’t dramatically declined during the pandemic. That’s in part because record-low interest rates and the work-from-home trend have led city dwellers to buy homes in suburban and rural areas, boosting home prices in many regions. It’s also because extensive measures, including a moratorium on evictions and forbearance programs for mortgages, have helped struggling families weather the crisis so far. Those unpaid bills could eventu

Social Class: Housing Affordability & Eviction

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"Robots are being used to deter homeless people from setting up camp in San Francisco"

Social Class: Hostile Architecture & Deterrence

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There are 4.1 million homeless people & 11 million empty houses in Europe. Sources: Empty Houses Campaign (UK); 2011 Census (Spain); INSEE Government Research Bureau, 2012 (France); 2011 Census (Germany); Italian Statistic Institute estimated 2.7m in 2011 (Italy); 2011 Census (Portugal); Irish National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), 2012 (Ireland); Hellenic Property Federation (Pomida), estimate 2012 (Greece)
(2 of 4) The Stats on the Homeless
Number of Homeless Children Each Night in NYC Shelter System, 1983-2014 Source: NYC Department of Homeless Services and Human Resources Administration; NYCStat, Shelter Census Reports

Social Class: Homeless Population

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Landlords don't really provide housing, they actually make housing inaccessible by buying up more homes than they need. This practice drives up local property taxes and housing prices, all while making tenants pay for the mortgages of their landlords. In this manner, landlords only deepen generational income inequality.
Gentrification is seeing the little life you scraped together in your underserved, neglected community get dismantled, and you forced out. ~ yeloson
Los Angeles police officers forcibly removed Chavez Ravine residents like Aurora Vargas, who had been resisting the city's orders to leave their homes. The city had plans to build a stadium for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Palo Verde, La Loma and Bishop — three low-income neighborhoods that once made up the mostly Mexican-American community of Chavez Ravine, May 8, 1959. Photo credit: USC Libraries / Getty Images

Social Class: Gentrification

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They're driving the prices up because they're buying all of it. Now they're reselling it for higher and higher prices and making huge profits. Some of them are charging ridiculous prices just to let other people use it. So now there are people who can't afford it even if some is available, because it costs so much. People are getting sick and dying because they don't have any! Oh wait. Did I say hand sanitizer? Housing. I meant housing. Damn autocorrect.
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Hate knowing that not only could every renter buy a house, every renter actually IS buying a house - we are servicing a home loan, covering rates, and paying for repairs. We just don't get to KEEP the house - someone else does because they had capital and we didn't. ~ @cannibality
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BREAKING: Austin City Council approves the purchase of a hotel to permanently house people experiencing chronic homelessness USING DOLLARS CUT FROM THE POLICE BUDGET ~ @matthewferner Defunding the police isn't radical, it's real. ~ @CoriBush
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Housing Is a Human Right The People's Manual the People's Manual is a collective narrative created by organizers around the country sharing ideas for resisting the capitalist agenda that continues to dehumanize our communities and strategy for igniting a social justice campaigns and movements in our own.
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The housing market is one of the few parts of the economy that hasn’t dramatically declined during the pandemic. That’s in part because record-low interest rates and the work-from-home trend have led city dwellers to buy homes in suburban and rural areas, boosting home prices in many regions. It’s also because extensive measures, including a moratorium on evictions and forbearance programs for mortgages, have helped struggling families weather the crisis so far. Those unpaid bills could eventu
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Landlords don't really provide housing, they actually make housing inaccessible by buying up more homes than they need. This practice drives up local property taxes and housing prices, all while making tenants pay for the mortgages of their landlords. In this manner, landlords only deepen generational income inequality.
Lower-income Republicans are more likely than those with higher incomes to say the federal government has a responsibility to provide adequate housing Most Democrats, but especially lower-income Democrats, say the federal government has a responsibility to provide adequate housing Source: Pew Research Center Federal, Higher Income, Research Center, Federal Government, The Government, No Response
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Lower-income people are more likely to say the government should provide adequate housing
Lower-income Republicans are more likely than those with higher incomes to say the federal government has a responsibility to provide adequate housing Most Democrats, but especially lower-income Democrats, say the federal government has a responsibility to provide adequate housing Source: Pew Research Center
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Gentrification is seeing the little life you scraped together in your underserved, neglected community get dismantled, and you forced out. ~ yeloson
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Lower-income adults are more likely to see a role for the government in providing adequate housing
Lower-income adults are more likely than those with middle and upper incomes to see a role for the federal government in providing adequate housing, 2019 Source: Pew Research Center
there are 4 1 million homeless people in the world every hour, and one million empty houses in europe
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There are 4.1 million homeless people & 11 million empty houses in Europe. Sources: Empty Houses Campaign (UK); 2011 Census (Spain); INSEE Government Research Bureau, 2012 (France); 2011 Census (Germany); Italian Statistic Institute estimated 2.7m in 2011 (Italy); 2011 Census (Portugal); Irish National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), 2012 (Ireland); Hellenic Property Federation (Pomida), estimate 2012 (Greece)
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