Cedar Monroe is a chaplain, organizer, and author. They are the author of Trash: A Poor White Journey and served as a chaplain alongside people experiencing homelessness for 13 years. They are a PhD student at University College Cork and blog at cedarmonroe.substack.com.
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Where Can We Live?
In the West, we would do well to consider places like Brazil in developing a strategy to start down the path to ending homelessness here and we would do well to consider the power of the 8 to 11 million unhoused people who know what they need and are finally beginning to organize for their future.
September 9, 2024