Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price

Eric Goldfischer & Odilka Santiago — 2020-06-09T05:00:00Z

At a time when too many people are dying, Eric Goldfischer and Odilka Santiago remember Nikita Price of Picture the Homeless, and the participatory action-research he encouraged and produced.
“Homeless people have bestowed their knowledge upon academics, upon movements, and it's starting to come to fruition now” — Nikita Price, March 2018.
Collaborations between academics, activists and organizers lie at the core of many powerful community-based projects. Sometimes such partnerships serve

- Essays / homelessness, participatory action-research, research methods, community organizing, New York, urban research

Diverting Eyes and Bodies: The Management of Homeless Visibility in New York City

Eric Goldfischer — 2019-11-19T06:00:00Z

Eric Goldfischer argues that homeless diversion programs in New York City simultaneously divert the bodies of homeless people away from public spaces and the eyes of housed people away from these populations, so that city residents will not see and attempt to comprehend the crisis of homelessness.
In recent months, renewed attention has focused on the visibility of homeless New Yorkers in the subway system. Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) president Andy Byford and others have publicly

- Debates / homelessness, New York, visibility, invisibility, marginalized populations, public space

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Homeless Theory and Research Collaboration: A Tribute to Nikita Price

Diverting Eyes and Bodies: The Management of Homeless Visibility in New York City