Housing Insecurity and Community Stratification
One of the things that I thought about a lot while listening to our various guest speakers was the ways that I am sheltered from issues like housing insecurity and homelessness. Our guest speaker from CU at Home spoke about how their volunteering program seeks to bring people who would never otherwise meet together. This really stood out to me as a goal because I think it can be very easy for people who don't have connections to anyone experiencing housing insecurity, or experience it themselves, to become cut off from the members of their community that do. It seems like many people are uncomfortable with the existence of homeless people. Things like anti-homeless architecture or the way that it is illegal to stay overnight in many public, outdoor places like parks seem to indicate that many people view homelessness as primarily an optical issue. Essentially, if we don't see homeless people then homelessness isn't a problem. The issue with this ...