Homelessness Experts and Human Rights Advocates Discuss Homelessness and Community

How should we understand the increasing demonization and criminalization of homelessness across America? What can leaders in this field teach us about invoking empathy and critical analysis in responding to this complex set of issues?

“CLOSE TO HOME: Town Halls on Housing Equality” is a five-part digital summit with frontline thinkers and doers from across New York City and around the country. At the town halls, which took place from April 26 to May 24, 2023, housing equality was examined through a specific lens: housing and economic justice, food sovereignty and security, homelessness and community, culture and displacement, and media narratives about housing. Learn more here.

Featuring panelists Sharon Lee, Imam Omar Niass, Sheri Riemers (White Earth Nation of Ojibwe), Alexander Roque, and Donald H. Whitehead Jr. Moderated by Anthonine Pierre. Opening performance by Kelly Hall-Tompkins.