In this episode, we speak with Gabby Beans. Gabby is a member and lead producer for the New York-based aid network Home is a Human Right. She is also an actor, writer, and filmmaker, who has been recently featured in TV shows like Succession, House of Cards, and Blue Bloods. Today we’ll dive into topics including mutual aid networks, tactics for helping house the unhoused, and better ways to think about those living on our streets.

>> Links and References <<

Home Is A Human Right

Mutual Aid NYC

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

Picture the Homeless

Source of Income Discrimination Law

>> Research Regarding Homelessness and Criminality <<

• https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2019/september/HomelessQandA.html
• https://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/12/violence
• https://abcnews.go.com/US/incidents-violent-crime-homeless-grab-headlines-activists-urge/story?id=82443787
• https://www.commerce.wa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/hau-chg-mythsfacts-12-8-2016.pdf
• https://endhomelessness.org/blog/the-disturbing-realities-of-homelessness-and-violence/
• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED438347.pdf
• https://www.jstor.org/stable/3096817?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents