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Day 10: Racism and Homelessness
Today we’re focusing on racism and homelessness. A disproportionate amount of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color make up the homeless population in the United States, and our previous topics have offered insight into the barriers that exist for BIPOC in gaining and maintaining stable and quality housing. Today’s challenge activities explore homelessness through the lens of race, both nationally and locally.
TODAY’S CHALLENGE:

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Listen to this piece by NPR's Leila Fadel discussing how Indigenous people make up an outsized number of the vulnerable people who live on the streets in places across the American West.
Read this article from the National Alliance to End Homelessness focusing on the racial inequalities in homelessness, by the numbers.
Watch this video from the National Council for Behavioral Health discussing the systems which create disparate levels of homelessness for BIPOC, and read this article from Pew Trusts further analyzing this issue.
With the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority's (LAHSA) annual Homelessness count canceled this year due to COVID-19, we take a look back on last year's findings (January 2020) - most notably the disproportionate number of African American men who are homeless - 34% in relation to their percentage of the general population in Los Angeles - 8%.
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