Non-Fiction
Title & Amazon Link |
Author |
Date Published |
Recommended By/Comments |
Matthew Desmond |
2017 |
From Amazon.com: "In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible." (SL) |
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Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir |
2014 |
From Amazon.com: "In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why the same sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before." (SL) |
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Fiction & Memoirs
Title & Amazon Link |
Author |
Date Published |
Recommended By/Comments |
Theodore Dreiser |
1900 |
This is the story, first, of Carrie, who comes to the city of Chicago, faces grave poverty, and then experiences a meteoric rise to fame and wealth. The second story is that of Charles, the man who "helps" Carry but whose trajectory is opposite, as he falls from prosperity to homelessness, experiencing many of the things Connections' program participants have in their travels and travails. (SL) |
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Jeannette Walls |
2009 |
From Amazon.com: "The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want the responsibility of raising a family." (SL) |
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Chris Gardner |
2006 |
From Amazon.com: "The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street." (JE) |
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Play List, Podcasts, & Videos
Title & Link |
Artist/Author |
Album/Host Website |
Year |
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young |
Deja Vu |
1970 |
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According to Need--5-part podcast |
Katie Mingle |
2020 |
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Value |
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Movies
Title & Link to IMDb.com |
Year |
Description from IMDb.com |
2015 |
"A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway." |
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2015 |
"An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold." |
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Games
Name of Game & Link |
Host/Author |
Description |
Multiple choice scenarios to explore the types of choices people who are homeless have to make |
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Value |
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Quotes about Housing, Poverty, Advocacy
"There's no place like home."
-- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
-- Mahatma Ghandi
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
-- Pawan Kalyan
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. "
-- James A. Baldwin
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
-- Confucius
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
-- Robert Kennedy
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
-- Maya Angelou
-- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
"Poverty is the worst form of violence."
-- Mahatma Ghandi
"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
-- Pawan Kalyan
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. "
-- James A. Baldwin
"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
-- Confucius
"I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil."
-- Robert Kennedy
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
-- Maya Angelou
