Homelessness as a Crisis of Democracy

Homelessness is often thought of as a state of deprivation – a lack of a roof over one’s head or the lack of a bed to sleep in. But Professor Paul Schofield will argue that it is more than this. Homelessness is a wholesale exclusion from society, community and civic life. It is exclusion that is incomsistent with our democratic values. This realization should shape our political response to the homelessness crisis as well as our thinking about how those who are housed should treat those who have nowhere to live.

Coordinator: Elaine Pratt (elaineprattnjnh@gmail.com)