By Christoph Butterwegge
What does it mean to be unhoused or unsheltered in a prosperous country that defines itself as a social welfare state?
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By Hélène B. Ducros and Elizabeth B. Jones
While policymakers rightly blame the COVID-19 epidemic, the war in Ukraine, and persistently high levels of inflation for the lack of progress in alleviating homelessness and for the dire shortage of safe and affordable housing in many places, these factors have exacerbated rather than created a complex problem that touches a wide array of people at different life stages and under various socio-economic conditions.
Curated by Hélène B. Ducros
The artists succeed in making the urban poor and the homeless visible by challenging social indifference and mobilizing the public’s awareness.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
This photography project places homelessness at the heart of a global network of cities.
By Dion Kramer
The vast majority of EU citizens experiencing homelessness originally left their home country with the aspiration to find (better) work abroad and improve their quality of life. This fact helps us to connect homelessness to the very raison d’être of the freedom of movement principle in the European Union.
By Katalin Ámon
When teaching about homelessness, the risk is to present homeless people as passive subjects.
By Jörg Dittmann and Matthias Drilling
Until a few years ago, there were no data on homelessness in Switzerland, and homelessness was hardly researched there. Homelessness did not rank high on the social policy agenda or in poverty research either.
By Lindsay B. Flynn
Inequality is one of the defining issues of our time, and social scientists have consistently confirmed that housing is a key driver of contemporary inequalities. How then, should we talk about housing as part of a constellation of economic and social inequalities plaguing contemporary Europe? There are at least three ways to probe this question.
By Hélène B. Ducros
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