Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

April 13, 2018 | 5:30 p.m. | Portland State University School of Social Work

1800 SW Sixth Ave., Portland OR 97201

At the most basic level, a home is a place that gives you shelter, protecting you from the weather and unsafe situations. It’s also where you live your life, eat your meals, raise your family. If housing is a basic human right, why do so many people struggle to find or keep housing? How do we as individuals and as a society make decisions that undermine the idea that we all have a right to home? Join facilitator Cristina Palacios in a conversation that will ask you to share your own experiences with housing and explore the ways that we value—and discount—home as a basic human right. Read more.

Event Sponsors

Portland State University - School of Social Work

Cost

Free

Contact

Marina Barcelo at (503) 725-5021 or mbarcelo@pdx.edu