Worlds of Homelessness
WORLDS OF HOMELESSNESS - DAY 1: OPENING PANEL / FRAMING THE ISSUE

“How are the issues of homelessness and housing precarity spoken about and addressed in different communities, cities, countries, or parts of the world? How can we understand and examine the interconnectivity and linkages between homelessness and its many related themes such as rich and poor, participation, inequality, gentrification, racism, and migration? Is housing a human right that demands stronger policies by policymakers? How can the knowledge and needs of communities become important drivers for change?” were some of the questions that shaped the discussion at the Skid Row Museum and Archive on Day 1 of this event series, which ended with a riveting performance by the LA Playmakers.
 
Discussion participants included: Ananya Roy, who is director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin, home to the Housing Justice in #Unequal Cities Network, a global research endeavor at the intersection of scholarship and the politics of housing; Michele Lancione from the University of Sheffield, who has researched in Eastern Europe and started the Radical Housing Journal; Showzart, a virtuoso artist who works from the streets of Skid Row; and Barbara Schönig from the Bauhaus University in Weimar, who has researched affordable housing in Germany.