Sustainability and Inequality Victoria Adler

When the pandemic first hit the states, many didn’t know what to expect. Was this an extended spring break for elated high school students? Or was this a brutal hit on the world’s most vulnerable people?

I will be discussing a specific shelter in Howard County Maryland, in connection with the Sustainable Development Goal of ending poverty, specifically, addressing homelessness and surrounding issues. Today I will be going in depth about this specific shelter, as well as how certain challenges in addressing this goal have been shaped by the pandemic.



Links to Sources:

2 scholarly print sources


https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2020-059
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30234-4/fulltext

2 popular/literary sources


https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/11/the-uncounted-people-who-are-homeless-are-invisible-victims-of-covid-19/
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/08/24/coronavirus-homeless-people/

2  multimedia sources (interviews, podcasts, videos, tweets, newscasts, etc.)


https://twitter.com/usichgov
https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-choose-the-streets-over-shelters

Academic Bibliography:

Abrams, Elissa M, and Stanley Szefler. “COVID-19 and the Impact of Social Determinants of Health.” The Lancet, 2020, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30234-4/fulltext.

Jadidzadeh, Ali, and Ron Kneebone. “Homeless Shelter Flows in Calgary and the Potential Impact of Covid-19.” Canadian Public Policy, 2020, https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cpp.2020-059.

McFarling, Usha Lee, et al. “The Uncounted: People Who Are Homeless Are Invisible Victims of Covid-19.” STAT, 10 Mar. 2021, https://www.statnews.com/2021/03/11/the-uncounted-people-who-are-homeless-are-invisible-victims-of-covid-19/.

Molly Bohannon, Katie Surma. “Covid-19 Is a 'Crisis within a Crisis' for Homeless People.” Cronkite News - Arizona PBS, 26 Aug. 2020, https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2020/08/24/coronavirus-homeless-people/.

Shapiro, Ari. “Why Some Homeless Choose the Streets over Shelters.” NPR, NPR, 6 Dec. 2012, https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-choose-the-streets-over-shelters.

Twitter, Twitter, https://twitter.com/usichgov.

The action taken will be decisive, collective, and meaningful, and it needs to be taken now. We cannot protect the most vulnerable without protecting the planet, and vice versa.