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ECONOMIC & HOUSING

"Mass homelessness has become increasingly normalized since the late 1970s, as neoliberal economic policies began divesting public resources from housing, healthcare, and welfare in favor of policing, prisons, and privatization."

– Street Watch LA

Things to read:

 

- Family, Race, and Poverty in the Eighties by Maxine Zinn

- The Criminalization of Poverty by Kaaryn Gustafson

- Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward

- Poverty Knowledge by Alice O’Connor

- The Undeserving Poor by Michael B. Katz

- Not a Crime to be Poor by Peter Edelman

- From Civil Rights to Human Rights by Thomas F. Jackson

- King and the Other America by Sylvie Laurent

- To the Promised Land by Michael K. Honey

- A Freedom Budget for all Americans by Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates

- The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

- Illiberal Reformers by Thomas C. Leonard

- Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How it Can Do Better by Rob Reich

- Invisible Hands by Kim Phillips-Fein

- Defying Dixie by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

- Hammer and Hoe by Robin D. G. Kelley

- Freedom is not Enough by Nancy MacLean

- Freedom From Fear by David M. Kennedy

- The War on Welfare by Marisa Chappell

- Getting Tough by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann

- Profit Over People by Noam Chomsky

- Dark Money by Jane Mayer

- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

- Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamanhita Taylor

- A World of Homeowners by Nancy H. Kwak

- Evicted by Matthew Desmond

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Homelessness

- Invisible Nation by Richard Schweid

- Ungoverned and Out of Sight by Charley E. Willison

- Skid Road by Josephine Ensign

- Cast Out Edited by A. L. Beier & Paul Ocobock

 

Colonial/Early American History of Poverty

- Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia by Sumon P. Newman

- Inequality in Early America by Carla Gardina Pestana & Sharon V. Salinger

- American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor

- The Unknown American Revolution by Gary B. Nash

- The Discovery of the Asylum by David J. Rothman

- Unwelcome Americans by Ruth Wallis Herndon

- In the Shadow of the Poorhouse by Michael B. Katz

- Scraping By by Seth Rockman

Accounts/Orgs to Follow:

 

- @thhheohenderson

- @unionrescuemission

- @streetwatchla

- @frontlinemedics

- @coloredmindsinc

- @ucsb4cola

- @ucsbugs4cola

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- Coalition on Human Needs

- Center for Law and Social Policy

- End Child Poverty US

- National Center for Law and Economic Justice

- The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival

- Repairers of the Breach

- Kairos Center for Religions, Rights, and Social Justice

- Institute for Policy Studies

- The Urban Institute 

- National Center for Children in Poverty

- Poverty and Race Research Action Council

- Democratic Socialists of America 

- Industrial Workers of the World

- Service Employees International Union

- UNITE HERE

- Citizens for Tax Justice

- Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organization

- The Social Welfare Action Alliance

- Social Security Works

- National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

- Alliance for Housing Justice

- Right to the City 

- Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment

- Housing NOW! California

- Tenants Together

- The National Alliance to End Homelessness

- The National Coalition for the Homeless

- The National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty

- Habitat for Humanity

- Housing is a Human Right

- Housing California

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