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I just overheard someone in Portland talking about workshops in shelters teaching homeless people to make “vision boards” and I almost started to cry about how our society imagines the ways to address structural poverty.
They were also talking about teaching homeless people digital storytelling.
Obviously I think ppl without homes ought to be able to communicate & have visions.
But it breaks my ❤️ to think of them being taught, “If you can just envision a home, you can have one!”
Obviously I think ppl without homes ought to be able to communicate & have visions.
But it breaks my ❤️ to think of them being taught, “If you can just envision a home, you can have one!”
The word neoliberalism becomes slippery & unclear but a definition I find helpful is that it is a force which shifts risk from the society onto the individual.
This 👆🏾is neoliberalism: the framing of homelessness not as a crisis of the state & capitalism, but of one’s vision.
This 👆🏾is neoliberalism: the framing of homelessness not as a crisis of the state & capitalism, but of one’s vision.
It is quite possible that what we need to address homelessness is not more vision, inspiration or “empowerment” but maybe—just maybe—a more fair & equitable distribution of this society’s & the world’s abundant resources!
