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How to end homelessness in America: a must-read guide to understanding housing instability, supporting our unhoused neighbors, and reclaiming our humanity. A deeply humanizing analysis that will change the way you think about poverty and homelessness - for the socially engaged reader of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste and Matthew Desmond's Evicted.. Think about the last time that you saw or interacted with an unhoused person. What did you do? What did you say? Did you offer money or a smile, or did you avert your gaze?. When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose - in ourselves and as a society - when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets. And it brilliantly shows what we stand to gain when we embrace our humanity and move toward evidence-based people-first, community-driven solutions, offering social analysis, economic and political histories, and the real stories of unhoused people.
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KEVIN F. ADLER is an award-winning social entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, author, and speaker. Since 2014, he has served as the Founder and CEO of , a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to helping people experiencing homelessness rebuild their social support systems and financial security, primarily through family reunification services, a phone buddy program and direct cash transfers, including one of the first basic income pilots for unhoused individuals in the United States. Kevin's pioneering work on homelessness and relational poverty has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, in his TED Talk, on a billboard in Times Square, and in his forthcoming book, (November 2023) . Kevin is also the author of , a book that explores how shared traumas can unite or divide communities. He has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, TED Resident, and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, for which he served one year in Oaxaca, Mexico. He received his MPhil in sociology from the University of Cambridge and his BA in politics from Occidental College, where President Obama's favorite professor said, "in 40 years of teaching, Kevin is the single best student I've ever had. " Motivated by his late mother's work teaching at underserved adult schools and nursing homes, and his late uncle's 30 years living on and off the streets, Kevin believes in a future where everyone is recognized as invaluable and interconnected. Learn more at or follow him @kevinfadler.
