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“Homeless People Not Wanted Here”

January 9, 2018 by Nicole Braun 5 Comments

They are all addicts, criminals, on drugs, mentally ill, dangerous and have made bad choices, unlike us.  That was the general sentiment of the people who showed up to protest a new homeless shelter in the community where I live. They might as well have put a sign out that read, Poor People Keep Out. […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Class prejudice, Classism Tagged With: blaming the victim, classism, homeless, poverty, privilege, Rationalizing privilege, snobs

Homeless Shelters as Band-Aids: Housing Is a Human Right

December 7, 2017 by Nicole Braun Leave a Comment

From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Article 25: (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Affordable Housing, Building Economic Alternatives, Class prejudice, Classism, Classism in social services, Classism in the Economy Tagged With: classism, homeless, owning class, poverty, public services

Spare Some Change? Institutional Change Must Be Guided By Leadership Who Listen

November 20, 2014 by Kendra PeloJoaquin 2 Comments

Many years ago, I worked in a shelter that served chronically homeless women. My organization focused on supporting the rights and self-determination of our clients as we kept the peace and built trusting relationships. Unfortunately, the agencies charged with serving people who are vulnerable and in need of great service are often led by people […]

Filed Under: Classism in social services, Poverty Tagged With: classism, homeless, homeless shelters, poverty

How the non-homeless talk about homeless people

November 19, 2014 by Betsy Leondar-Wright Leave a Comment

I knew it was bad, but I didn’t know it was this bad! I had a chance to ask over 500 people to write down the most classist comment they had ever heard. Because the host was Real Change, Seattle’s wonderful street paper, which is sold by homeless and formerly homeless vendors, lots of the […]

Filed Under: Classism in social services, Poverty Tagged With: classism, homeless, poverty

Class Inequality and Transgender Communities

August 11, 2014 by Davey Shlasko

Transgender issues have received more sympathetic media attention in the past few months than ever before. While so many people are paying attention to trans issues for the first time, this seems like an important moment to draw attention to an issue that’s at the heart of many of the challenges trans* people face in […]

Filed Under: Politics and Class Tagged With: discrimination, health care, homeless, poverty, transgender

The distance between us … and them!

June 12, 2013 by Cari Gulbrandsen Leave a Comment

The other day, I saw a billboard that reached out and slapped me across the face in a very figurative way. An enormous billboard for a domestic violence campaign asserted, “Sally is not one of THEM, she is one of US”. I also heard the radio commercial version of this campaign, encouraging listeners to empathize […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media Tagged With: ads, classism, homeless

Need vs. Greed: Greed Wins

March 13, 2013 by Lita Kurth Leave a Comment

I’ve been interviewing people and carrying out research lately on housing affordability in San Jose, and what I’ve found has been both heartbreaking and enraging. In a city and area where housing is jaw-droppingly expensive, some of the wealthy exploit the poor, or worse, take for themselves public goods intended for the needy. Beginning my […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life, Classism in the Economy, Internalized classism, Money, Poverty Tagged With: affordable housing, homeless, immigrants, poverty

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