Events

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.