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​Books, Movies, Songs & More
Non-Fiction 
Title & Amazon Link​
Author
Date Published
Recommended By/Comments
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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)
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
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)

Fiction & Memoirs
Title & Amazon Link​
Author
Date Published
Recommended By/Comments
Sister Carrie
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)
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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)
The Pursuit of Happyness
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)

Play List, Podcasts, & Videos
Title & Link
Artist/Author
Album/Host Website
Year
Our House
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young
Deja Vu
1970
According to Need--5-part podcast
Katie Mingle
99% Invisible
2020
Value

Movies
Title & Link to IMDb.com
Year
Description from IMDb.com
The Lady in the Van
2015
"A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway."
The Public
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."

Games
Name of Game & Link
Host/Author
Description
Hobson's Choice
VinFormation
Multiple choice scenarios to explore the types of choices people who are homeless have to make
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Value
Value

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


Famous People Who Have Been Homeless
Tiffany Haddish

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