This Is How We Care

072: How We Humanize Homelessness with Kevin F. Adler

Episode Summary

In this episode, Kevin F. Adler—award-winning social entrepreneur and the author of the new book When We Walk By, a must-read guide for ending homelessness in America—shares with us how we can tackle homelessness from a human and interpersonal level by focusing on relational poverty—a form of poverty characterized by severe disconnection and isolation. Kevin shares how he began his project where 24 unhoused individuals wore GoPro cameras to document their daily experience, and how this led to Miracle Messages—an organization that reconnects unhoused people with their loved ones.

Episode Notes

In this episode, Kevin F. Adler—award-winning social entrepreneur and the author of the new book When We Walk By, a must-read guide for ending homelessness in America—shares with us how we can tackle homelessness from a human and interpersonal level by focusing on relational poverty—a form of poverty characterized by severe disconnection and isolation. Kevin shares how he began his project where 24 unhoused individuals wore GoPro cameras to document their daily experience, and how this led to Miracle Messages—an organization that reconnects unhoused people with their loved ones. 

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