Homeless Awareness Collaborative Book Project

After considering some of the excellent essays that we received for our 2016 contest, we are embarking on a homeless awareness book project. We are interested in hearing from students who would like to contribute content. Proceeds from the sale of the book will be used to fund future awareness projects or be donated to  select homeless relief organizations.

For more information, please email us at: [email protected].

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​Topics to consider may include things like:

• ​The history of homelessness in the United States
• Causes of homelessness
• Challenges faced by people experiencing homelessness
• Youth homelessness
  • LGBT Youth
  • Foster Care to Homelessness
• Exploitation of the homeless
• The poverty industry
• Community responses to homelessness
• The criminalization of homelessness
• Anti-vagrancy and quality-of-life laws (promoting public safety or public comfort?)
• Solutions to alleviate homelessness and poverty
• Housing First
• Low cost housing alternatives
  • Tiny home villages
  • Micro-apartments
• The empathy crisis
• Advanced technologies and the future of work (are we heading for a jobless future?)
  • Robots
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automation
• Changemakers: People making a difference in their communities