LISTENING SERIES

Home is a Human Right was an online conversation series featuring leaders from the movement for homeless rights in New York City. Between January and March of 2021, we produced three live zoom episodes, each one featuring a conversation between an activist or advocate who has experienced homelessness and another guest with perspective on how structural racism and economic inequity has resulted in widespread homelessness in our city. Nearly one hundred thousand New Yorkers are currently homeless, and 86% of people in the NYC shelter system self identify as Black or brown— homelessness is an engineered crisis, and homelessness is racist. By creating a platform for the voices of individuals with direct experience of being homeless and fighting for the right to housing, the series aimed to amplify the leadership of those who know the most about what is broken within our society and to generate a citywide conversation about how we might collectively work together to repair it.