Join us at one of our upcoming webinars or workshops, or view recordings of our past events. All are welcome to attend our free virtual events.
October 28, 2026 2:00 pm EST The Lab partnered with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to host our inaugural content creator program for 16 lifestyle, mental health and educational creators. Join the Lab, the Harvard team and a few of the creators to learn more about the program, the power of giving creators creative freedom to talk about housing and homelessness in their own ways and what we learned from our impact research.
October 8, 2026 1:00 pm EST Dr. Jill Wiwcharuk is a street medicine doctor in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada who joined Instagram to educate the public and foster compassion about homelessness and the people experiencing it. Join the Lab as we talk with Dr. Jill to learn more about how she got into street medicine, why she began sharing on social media, and how partners can best support creators like her to change the narrative around housing and homelessness.
September 29, 2025 2:00 pm EST Young people across the country are deeply hurt by sky-high rents and insufficient housing, including in college towns like Chapel Hill, N.C. Students at the University of North Carolina are showing what it looks like when young people tell stories about housing instability and homelessness — and solutions to it. We’ll talk with students who participated in the school’s POV Challenge 2025 and shared their stories, exploring the many ways housing is foundational to their lives through music video
November 21, 2024 1:00 pm EST Documentaries are a powerful art form that highlight the most pressing challenges we face. One film, BEYOND THE BRIDGE: A Solution To Homelessness, takes it a step further. The film is at the center of an impact campaign to build support for the one solution we know answers the central question: How can this country solve homelessness in a comprehensive way?
September 19, 2024 2:00 pm EST No matter where we live, we all want to be part of strong communities where everyone has a place to come home to. From coast to coast, communities in the United States are struggling to ensure everyone has a safe, quality and affordable place to live, but the national conversation typically doesn’t include information about communities in the heartland.
June 12, 2024 12:30 pm EST Tensions about immigration and homelessness are flaring across the country as more people arrive in the U.S. seeking asylum or refuge. Local communities are looking to house new arrivals and the people already here who need a roof over their heads. But too often, those conversations are overly simplified and pit different groups against each other.
March 14, 2024 12:00 am EST Join us for a discussion about how housing and advocacy organizations can communicate about the SCOTUS case to expand broad public support for compassionate, proven solutions to homelessness.
December 5, 2023 3:00 pm EST AfroLA is solutions-focused, data-driven and community-centered journalism for Los Angeles, told through the lens of the Black community, and with emphasis on how news may disparately impact L.A.’s most vulnerable groups and communities of color.
October 26, 2023 12:00 am EST Join the Housing Narrative Lab for our next webinar exploring a range of creative storytelling approaches about homelessness and housing, featuring a diverse panel of artists.
September 26, 2023 4:00 pm EST Join us for an engaging discussion about the connection between health and homelessness, and the harmful narratives that often shape healthcare for people without stable housing.
June 27, 2023 4:00 pm EST Marisol Bello and the Housing Narrative Lab as we welcome Dr. Tiffany Manuel of TheCaseMade in a conversation about centering joy and celebrating the people building a housing justice movement.
February 9, 2023 12:00 pm EST Headway, an initiative of The New York Times, aims to “explore the world’s challenges through the lens of progress.” Editors Terry Parris Jr. and Matt Thompson join us to discuss their approach to reporting on homelessness and why it is important for media outlets to bolster their housing and homelessness coverage. We will talk about how people with lived experience, advocates, providers and other stakeholders inform their reporting, and how to build strong relationships with journalists.
December 1, 2022 12:00 am EST Covering homelessness requires journalists to take a 360-view, going in-depth with government officials, advocates, policy makers and others to cover the housing, economics and racial justice dynamics that lead to homelessness.
September 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST Across the nation, government and elected officials can choose to ensure everyone in our communities has a safe place to call home. The crisis of homelessness was created by policy choices, and can be solved by policy choices. But some proposals are actually dehumanizing measures that make it harder for people to find and keep a safe and stable place to live. In this media webinar, we will explore how journalists can cover the policies that lead to solutions.
June 30, 2022 12:00 pm EST Join us for a webinar with grassroots communicators, organizers and people with lived expertise to discuss how building narrative power helps us respond to and stop efforts that criminalize people because they can’t afford a place to live.
June 10, 2022 12:00 pm EST The reality of who experiences homelessness and why is broader than what we perceive or see. We explore the breadth of who experiences homelessness and why.
May 12, 2022 12:00 pm EST During this session, journalist and professor Yvonne Latty will be joined by Saba Mwine, Managing Director of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute, for a conversation on how journalists can be anti-racist when covering homelessness and housing issues.