A Look at Life in Tent City, NJ

Homelessness in the U.K.

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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​

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Disowned Homeless LGBT Youth

ABC News Story on Homeless Youth