Kenzie Mains

Stop harmful discourse about unhoused people at SFU

By: Kenzie Mains, SFU Student Content warning: discussions of prejudice towards unhoused individuals. You may be aware of the increasing presence of unhoused people on SFU campuses, whether you’ve seen it yourself, viewed discussions online, or heard conversations in person. With discussions about the housing crisis and unhoused folks comes problematic discourse that treats this vulnerable group as a problem rather than people. It’s not fair to put the blame on them for relying on our campus for resources and comfort. Such rhetoric is all too common and compounded by harmful prejudices, emerging from a wider stigma around houselessness in…

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