Housing Justice East/

West Workshop
Session 1: Understanding Housing Justice
Agenda

● Housekeeping & Introductions

● Grounding-Why are we here
● Understanding Housing Justice
● Roundtable Conversation
● Restorative Practice and Reflection
● Next Steps
Virtual Housekeeping

● Chatbox: used for community building, resource sharing, large

group debriefs– your participation is up to you! You can close the
chat box if it’s distracting.

● Materials: You’ll likely want something to write with/on-up to you

whether this is digital or if you’ll grab a piece of paper.

● Follow Up: This session is being recorded. Access to the recording

and a modified slide deck will be made available following today’s
session.
Virtual Community Agreements
● Address the issue, not the person.
● Lean into discomfort.
● Be respectful of others - on their terms.
● Acknowledge that we’re all on a journey
and part of that journey is growth.
● Show up with humility and empathy even
if opinions differ.
● Make space, take space.
● Be patient and accountable to one
another to ultimately build trust with
one another.
● Confidentiality: What’s said here stays
here, what’s learned here leaves here.
Please note that Housing Justice
Workshop Facilitators hold the right to
remove any attendees that do not
support these agreements in co-creating
a safe, brave, and accountable space
Why we lift up Race in Introductions
• Naming racial identity focuses our awareness on how we show up with each other and
particularly with Black Brown, Indigenous, and other people of color colleagues.
• Naming racial identity focuses our awareness on who is not present.
• Naming racial identity removes our fear of talking about race and instead normalizes it.
• Naming racial identity helps us own our racial identity and what we bring into the space.
• Naming racial identity reminds us that racial groups sit differently in relation to power and
resources in the U.S. due to historical and present day manifestations of systemic racism
• Naming racial identity helps us resist habits of white supremacy culture and anti-Blackness
and its constant presence.
• Naming racial identity is a proactive disruption of white dominant culture.
• Naming racial identity grounds us in the connections between homelessness and race.
• Naming racial identity names whiteness and invites us to sit with the discomfort of
whiteness and the space that it takes up.
• Naming racial identity contributes to doing our work well and building our capacity to build
system responses that are equitable.
Why we lift up Pronouns in Introductions
• Everyone has pronouns. Naming pronouns reminds us that we
cannot know and should never assume we know someone’s
gender just from knowing their name, seeing their face or
body, or hearing their voice.
• Naming pronouns during introductions gives everyone the
opportunity to actively consent to how they want others in the
room to refer to them. By hearing and using the pronouns
people ask us to use, we are respecting everyone’s identity
• Someone’s pronouns may change over time for many reasons.
Naming pronouns in introductions gives people the
opportunity to name who they are and how they want to be
referred to in that moment.
• Some people may use different pronouns in different settings,
which may be driven by their perceived level of safety in the
space.
• Some people may use their name in place of pronouns.
 Welcome &
Introductions in the Chat
Name, Pronouns, Racial
Identity, location, and any other
identities you want to claim in
this space
 Technical Assistance Team

Dr. LaJuana Ormsby Tiffany Hart Erica Snyder Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown
E’laine Williams Allison Nye, she/they,
She/Her, Black, They/Them, White, she/her, White, Erica She/Aval/They white, CSH
The Cloudburst Group She/her, Black, CSH Hart Changes Snyder Consulting Abt Associates
Consulting

Michele S. Williams Heather Duchscherer

Ben Cattell Noll Julie McFarland, Dr. Kathryn Primas
She/Her, Black, they/she, White,
He/Him, white, ICF she/her, white, Julie She/Her, Black,
Michele S. Williams, LLC The Cloudburst Group
McFarland Consulting Abt Associates
Grounding in “Why we are here”
Roundtable Conversation
Aaron Weaver, ReImagine Omaha
Home - Reimagine (reimagineomaha.org)

Dr. Bambie Hayes-Brown, Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc. (ACT)

Georgia Advancing Communities Together, Inc. | GAgives

David Peery, MCARE and National Coalition for the Homeless

About MCARE – Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity (miamiracialequity.org)
Homepage - NCH (nationalhomeless.org)

Kate Perch, Prevention Point Philadelphia

Home | Prevention Point (ppponline.org)
Roundtable Conversation
Courtney Knoll, Avivo
Avivomn.org

Zach Brown, West Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness

wvceh.org

Dale Tippett, Prevention Point Philadelphia

ppponline.org
Future Sessions
Session 2 Dates and Times:

West- Tuesday, February 27- 3:30-5pm EST, 12:30-2pm PST

East- Wednesday, February 28- 1-2:30pm EST, 10-11:30am PST

*Note- Content will be the same both days! Feel free to attend whichever session
is more convenient for you.