Housing Insecurity and Homelessness:
An Education Toolkit
What is this?
A webpage detailing books, articles, podcasts and more that are helpful for learning about housing insecurity and homelessness.
Who is this for?
Christians and churches awakening to the needs of their local community and wanting to know more about the landscape of housing insecurity and homelessness.
How do I use this?
Anyway you want! Start a book group, use the articles in a sermon, share podcasts in your church newsletter. Use alongside the direct service and advocacy toolkits to find pathways to engage your local congregation in addressing systemic injustices through practical action and organizing.
Books
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Homesick: Why Housing is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It by Brendan O’Brien
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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted under the Color of Law by Leah and Richard Rothstein)
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When We Walk By: Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America by Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes
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People before Highways: Boston Activists, Urban Planners, and a New Movement for City Making by Karilyn Crockett
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Articles
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Shelterforce is an independent publication that serves (and sometimes challenges) affordable housing and community development practitioners across the United States.
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Boston Globe article about the history and current state of the housing crisis in Massachusetts.
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New Yorker article about how Lexington, Massachusetts is implementing zoning reform to allow multifamily housing.
Videos
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Boston Faith and Justice Network
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Abundant Housing MA
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WinterWalk produces videos that document the stories of people with lived experience of homelessness. You can view them here.
Podcasts
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This Great and Complicated Place (Christianity Today). A podcast about how churches and faith communities can engage with questions of race and equity by focusing on the urban design and experience of their cities.
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According to Need: A Project of 99% Invisible (Katie Mingle and 99% Invisible). A podcast hosted by reporter Katie Mingle, investigating the homelessness crisis and systems attempting to combat it.