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Who are the homeless and how does corporate capitalism limit affordable housing?
Wednesday, April 7 7:00 pm
Living on the Outskirts of Society: Stigmatization of people in re-entry from incarceration and recovery
Individuals leaving jail or in recovery from addictions face very specific housing challenges. We will discuss the biggest challenges in finding housing for them, ideas for remediation, short and long term, and how we as the local community can support the work in some concrete ways.
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- Gina Govoni, Franklin County Regional Housing Authority
- Peggy Vezina, Western Massachusetts Training Consortium
- Jenn Avery, Re-Entry case worker, Franklin County Sheriff’s Office
- Trenda Loftin, The Compost Coop
Housing within a Corporate Capitalist Society
Thursday, April 8 7:00 pm
To fully understand this housing crisis and how we got here, we must look at the question of why there is homelessness in the wealthiest country in the history of the world and why there is such a lack of affordable housing throughout this country. In this workshop, we consider how corporate capitalism shapes the housing challenges we face in Franklin County, and across the country, and how that understanding can help us act most effectively in finding/creating housing for all.
- Traci Talbert, Racial Justice Community Engagement Leader, Franklin County Community Development Corp.
- Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Director, Urban Democracy Lab, New York University
- Jake Carlson, Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University
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