Compendium of Resources

Articles, weblinks, and videos:

Homelessness in America:

• Article: https://www.alphaproject.org/images/pdf/APeducation--Who-is-Homeless.pdf

• Website: National Alliance to End Homelessness: https://endhomelessness.org/

Groups Susceptible to Homelessness:

• Website: https://nationalhomeless.org/issues/

• Study: https://socialinnovation.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Predictive-and-protective-factors-for-homelessness-Lit-Review-12.20.17...-1.pdf

• Website: https://nationalhomeless.org/about-homelessness

Solutions:

• Lessons from Around the World: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/how-to-solve-homelessness-poverty-cities-urbanization/

• Architectural Solutions, Website: https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/these-are-some-of-the-most-architecturally-interesting-solutions-to-homelessness-52765

• Road Blocks to Converting Office Buildings, Article: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/why-empty-offices-aren-t-being-turned-housing-despite-lengthy-n1274810

• Converting Unused Spaces to Housing, Website: https://www.dwell.com/article/adaptive-reuse-offices-hotels-housing-pandemic-cc0b4196

• Engineering and Designs for Change, Website: https://www.engineeringforchange.org/category/habitat/page/4/

• Tiny Homes in Seattle, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCzBi-TLKu0

Statistics and facts about Homelessness in San Diego:

• Article w/ link to study: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/apr/26/report-first-time-homelessness-san-diego-county/

• Article: https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/homeless-surging-san-dieg/

Housing Discrimination and Redlining:

• Individual Stories Website: https://www.urban.org/features/exposing-housing-discrimination

• News Article w/ links to LISC report and Mapping Inequality: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/san-diego/story/2020-09-11/could-you-live-here-decades-old-redlining-still-shapes-san-diegos-neighborhoods-today-advocates-say

• News Article: racist policies preventing black home-ownership https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2021/05/08/991535564/black-americans-and-the-racist-architecture-of-homeownership?origin=NOTIFY&fbclid=IwAR2qDh3XtF-MlqBFyYCixC5OhYp2UBYi-IfddQhyS4-lsoSOO8p0PJjlh04

• News Article: Redlining impact on today’s neighborhoods, and other info: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/03/28/redlining-was-banned-50-years-ago-its-still-hurting-minorities-today/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.506132c75955

• News article defining redlining- used for embedded video clip: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/redlining-what-is-history-mike-bloomberg-comments/

• Video interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/white-americans-confront-legacy-of-housing-discrimination/

• News Article: Modern day redlining - unfair lending practices- case in Philly https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/ct-biz-modern-day-redlining-20180215-story.html

Racism, Segregation and Environmental Health:

• Ted Talk: Confronting Painful Parts of U.S. history: https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_kwame_jeffries_why_we_must_confront_the_painful_parts_of_us_history#t-689852

• Ted Talk: Greening the Ghetto: https://www.ted.com/talks/majora_carter_greening_the_ghetto#t-539385

• Documentary: Race, the power of Illusion--Housing: https://vimeo.com/133506632

• Access to clean water: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/when-it-comes-access-clean-water-race-still-strongest-determinant-n1089606

• Ted Talk: Wrong Side of the Tracks: https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_deberry_why_the_wrong_side_of_the_tracks_is_usually_the_east_side_of_cities

• Environmental Racism: https://tcf.org/content/commentary/environmental-racism-left-black-communities-especially-vulnerable-covid-19/?session=1

• The New Jim Crow--video: https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/529137/environmental-racism-is-the-new-jim-crow/

Dignity and housing

• Op-ed: provides a good definition on what providing dignity must include

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865694065/Op-ed-Why-giving-homeless-people-dignity-is-wrongheaded-and-what-we-should-do-instead.html

• Building Dignity into Design--Shelter Designs for Domestic Violence Victims: https://buildingdignity.wscadv.org/

Chemistry of Trauma, Drug Addiction, and Recovery

• Traumatic stress: effects on the brain

• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181836/

• How addiction hijacks the brain

• https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain

• How To Heal The Brain After Trauma - The Best Brain Possible: https://www.thebestbrainpossible.com/how-to-reset-your-nervous-system-after-tauma/

Psychological Impacts on Making Connections in Youth:

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-teens/teens-with-strong-connections-at-home-and-school-may-become-healthier-adults-idUSKCN1TP2MD