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International
United Nations Goals for Sustainable Development: https://sdgs.un.org/goals
United Nations Refugee numbers: https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/refugees
United States
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond, 2016. Penguin Random House Books. Follows 8 families and landlords in Milwaukee. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Award “Astonishing” Gripping”
Freedom to Discriminate: How Realtors Conspired to Segregate Housing and Divide America. Greg Salter, Heyday Books, 2019. Video link. (excellent 1 hour summary by author to California Historical Society; other videos with similar content to Seattle and other audiences.)
“What Are the Root Causes of Homelessness. . . ,” a video summarizing research by UW professor Gregg Colburn. His book, with C.P. Aldern, Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (2022).
The Gap: A shortage of affordable homes
California
On sweeps — https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-homeless-enforcement-report-on-4118
California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness UCSF, 2023, is the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s. Has specific recommendations.
Artistic Expression
Howl, Allen Ginsberg: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl