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National Debate: Homelessness

01/27/2022 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST

Host Organization: Braver Angels' Debates
State/Region: - National
Setting: Online

de·bate| dəˈbāt | – noun – A highly structured conversation in which a group of people think together, listen to one another, and are open to being changed by ideas.

About this Event

Resolved: Address homelessness with housing first, without preconditions.

The homeless have many different faces: a family with children living in a car, a worker who lost his job who is living on friends’ couches or floors, a person with mental illness or drug addiction living on the streets, a man or woman living in an encampment ‘community’ with all their possessions, a teenage runaway vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking.

We see them in our cities and even our towns, panhandling, lying on sidewalks, wandering, scrounging for food, cold and shivering. We sometimes step over them and their detritus- human waste, needles, food containers, scraps of cloth…

We feel many things. Sadness, empathy, sympathy, anger, resentment, helplessness, shared humanity.

What should we do about homelessness? What might work?

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Details

Date:
01/27/2022
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST
Event Category:
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Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-debate-homelessness-registration-239451254147

Organizer

BA Debate Team
Email
debates@braverangels.org

Other

Host Organization
Braver Angels' Debates
State/Region
- National
Setting
Online

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