Learn More About Affordable Housing

Community

• The Eviction Economy
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond

Homelessness

• San Francisco Finds Giving the Homeless Housing Costs Less than Doing Nothing
• Homelessness is a Human Rights Issue
• In Seattle, 1 in 5 people booked into jail are homeless
• Rex Hohlbein’s TED talk (video)
• American Winter (video)

Poverty

• Americans Want to Believe Jobs are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not

Policy

• Nine Reasons to Support a Housing Levy in a Hot Housing Market
• Local Policy Toolkit (HDC)
• Homelessness & Housing Toolkit for Cities from MRSC and Association of Washington Cities

Youth & Education

• Academic Outcomes for Students Experiencing Homelessness are Far Worse than those for Housed Students
• Toxic Stress Research at Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child
  Research and Sources from Third Door Coalition

Race & Inequality

• Race, the Power of an Illusion, Episode 3: The House we Live In (video).
  Available online from King County Library System
• So you Want to Talk about Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
• What does it Mean to be White?, by Robin DiAngelo