2018 STEVE GRUETZMACHER HOMELESS AWARENESS ESSAY CONTEST
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A Look at Life in Tent City, NJ

Homelessness in the U.K.


Books

  • At Home on the Street: People, Poverty, and a Hidden Culture of Homelessness
  • Left Out in America: The State of Homelessness in the United States

  • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies                                        
  • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum
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  • ​Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor​
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  • The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor (Urban and Industrial Environments) 
  • Tent City Urbanism: From Self-Organized Camps to Tiny House Villages

Articles​

  • Newspaper Stories about Steve Gruetzmacher
    • New Smyrna Beach woman has no illusions about homeless brother, just love
    • A homeless soul who was loved to the end
  • Sleeping Rough in Seattle: homeless crisis exposes dark side of hi-tech city
  • Atlantic Magazine: The Resurrection of America's Slums 
  • Atlantic Magazine: The Best Way to End Homelessness
  • Atlantic Magazine: How Can the U.S. End Homelessness?
  • Economist Magazine article on Technological Unemployment
  • Mother Jones Magazine article about how Utah has decreased homelessness by 72% in the past nine years.
  • Huffington Post article  about School on Wheels ,  a non-profit organization providing one-on-one tutoring to homeless youth in California.
  • Reaching Out to the Homeless Woman Sleeping on Your Doorstep
  • Tiny homes as a solution for homelessness
  • Innovative new East Austin micro-village will rent to homeless for $210 a month
  • Scholarly Articles
    • Homelessness: Causes,  Culture, and Community Development as a Solution
    • In Defense of Homelessness
  • The Criminalization of Homelessness
    • Lifting bans on sleeping outside won’t stop criminalization of homelessness (Washington Post)
    • The growing criminalization of homelessness (Aljazeera America)
    • Criminalization of homelessness on the rise in U.S. cities (MSNBC)
    • The 1% wants to ban sleeping in cars – because it hurts their 'quality of life' (The Guardian)
  • Homelessness and Health
    • More Homeless Bedeviled by Trauma Than Mental Illness, Experts Say​

Videos

  • 60 Minutes story about technological unemployment

Blogs

  • Ending Homelessness Today: The official blog of the National Alliance to End Homelessness
  • Borgen Project Blog: Crimes Against the Homeless

Other

  • Homelessness in the U.S.: Sleep Study and Accommodation Directory​
  • Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Coming Technological Unemployment Crisis - contains links to articles, television shows, and radio interviews related to the societal impacts of disruptive technologies
  • Center for Building a Culture of Empathy​

Disowned Homeless LGBT Youth

ABC News Story on Homeless Youth

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  • Welcome
  • Contest
    • About Steve
    • The Zinedine Colombant Lightness Award
    • Guidelines
    • Suggested Topics
    • Judges
    • Apply
    • Submit
  • Youth Voices
  • Book
  • Resources
    • Other Resources
    • History
    • Youth Homelessness
    • Veterans
    • Affordable Housing
    • The Future of Work
    • The Empathy Crisis
    • Exploitation
    • Racism
    • Sustainability
    • Substance Abuse
  • Blog
  • Community
    • Forum
    • Global Perspectives
    • Chicago, IL
    • Cincinnati, OH
    • Dallas, TX
    • Eugene, OR
    • Harlingen, TX
    • Houston, TX
    • Los Angeles, CA
    • Nashville, TN
    • Philadelphia, PA
    • Pittsburgh, PA
    • Portland, OR
    • Reno, NV
    • Silicon Valley, CA
    • St. Louis, MO
    • Tampa, FL
  • Advocacy
  • Contact
    • Future Contests