Too often being homeless is considered a personal and a moral failing,when it’s actually a structural and political problem
The world is urbanising at an alarming rate with alarming results. Urban landscapes are now the most visible sign of improper inequality, contemporary glass and steel skyscrapers abutting makeshift shacks; people sleeping on the pavement silhouetted against the neon signs of multinational corporations. Our urban centres have become polarised: two cities existing side by side, and separated by status and rights. Urbanisation is now a classic tale of the haves and have nots,where some profit immensely while others struggle to survive, the result of policies and state inaction that has elevated some people at the expense of others. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com