Homeless Hub

A participatory creative research project led by homeless and ex-homeless people, exploring questions of money, worth and value in homeless communities.

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

Does the specific experience of being homeless give us a different perspective on money and materialism?

Or is it the experience of poverty generally that does that?

"Fools Gold" by Roger, part of a collage on money

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

I used to love the phrase "co-production".

But lately, often feels like a homeless org is saying "We want you to co-produce sthg - but **we** still start it, & define what it is". I don't see homeless people inviting an org to “co-produce” with us.

Does it happen?

[Class Consciousness Project @Class_C_Project]

Anyone who thinks 66 is a reasonable retirement age is either too young to know better or has spent their life in comfort.
For the working class, it's a death sentence. Decades of low pay, exhausting hours, failing healthcare, and poor nutrition take their toll.
Life expectancy has only edged up because people are kept alive longer with medication, not because they're living healthier lives. There’s nothing dignified about dragging a worn-out body through another decade of labour just to keep the economy ticking for the rich.

[English Radical History @EnglishRadical]

"The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless."

Mary Wollstonecraft, writer, philosopher and early advocate of women’s rights, was born #OnThisDay 1759.

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

Likkle reminder of an interesting fund for AI projects for social good...

Anyone can vote https://t.co/CT6Ng8b2iO

Our fave: https://t.co/Yz7aygV3t4 - developing a process that anyone can use to verify if AI is being used ethically.

Voting ends 6pm today!

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

Can AI be used for social good?

You can vote on the best ethical AI projects in this funding round from BGI Nexus https://t.co/CT6Ng8b2iO

Our fave: https://t.co/Yz7aygV3t4 Developing a process anyone can use to check if AI is being used ethically.

Voting ends 6pm tomoz (Mon)

[HomeLess Made @homelessmade]

Good Morning @UKGiftHour
One of the things rough sleepers say is the most difficult to deal with, is that they feel invisible.
So we are delighted our card range is ever expanding and that our artists talent can be showcased, they should never not be seen.

[Donna Hall @ProfDonnaHall]

Public services need more money 💰 But what about the way we organise ourselves around service silos rather than people, their families & communities? We found 80% of resources spent on repeated assessment & referral rather than supporting people. This is where the money goes 🤷‍♀️

[Andrew Harmsworth FRAS ☀️ @harmsy]

@implausibleblog Love the lettering in this shot! Bravo @BBCNewsnight ! #FFS #tariffs

[CrystalAsuna @crysasuna]

i really can't believe that the fucking internet archive isn't allowed to archive the internet because publishers are mad about shit being free but tech companies can feed all our data to LLMs

(petition attached below)

[#bullshitjobs @bullshitjobs]

Dear @larsweisbrod,

>90% of our jobs serve no economic purpose. But a financial. Billions of economically unnecessary #bullshitjobs are wasting most of our resources and energy. Causing global warming and inflation.

We need #basicincome to survive.
https://t.co/UuOqjMiVrc

[Co-Production Collective @UCL_CoPro]

In our latest blog Co-producer Maddie @itsmyamygdala explores epistemic injustice from her perspective as a psychiatric survivor and discusses how co-production has the potential to prevent and repair the harm done by this kind of injustice.https://t.co/J3v3v9FiNY

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

HMRC hasn't prosecuted anyone for enabling tax evasion in 5 years.

But it fined 95,000 people who dodged nothing, £100 each because their returns were slightly late.

HMRC, pinching the pennies, ignoring the stolen Pounds.

[Streets Kitchen @streetskitchen]

In #Camden, CPNs are being unjustly handed out like Smarties...

Typically imposed on the most vulnerable of society with ridiculous inhumane conditions attached.

MASSIVE thanks to Bríd & all the team at @hodgejonesallen for this important victory!
(1)
https://t.co/OgvFUNSjse

[Matt Peacock @mrmattpeacock]

This is going to be grrrreat! 👀

[Donna Hall @ProfDonnaHall]

My job over the last 40 years has been writing strategies. Depressingly none of them have worked. Not a single one 😐 What has worked are the compelling stories about a place, a partnership & the people. We can waste so much time on pointless documents that people can’t remember.

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

inspiring!

[Streets Kitchen @streetskitchen]

Freedom received this statement from the Camden Art Cafe squatters who have liberated Gordon Ramsay’s York and Albany Hotel restaurant in Camden:

https://t.co/cqjG0B8WyV

[Streets Kitchen @streetskitchen]

Pring on 11th April 2024Category: Benefits and Poverty

🚨Some of the hundreds of disabled people left homeless on London’s streets have described how they came to be living in tents just yards from where the DWP used to have many of its offices...

https://t.co/kDbvXoXoSO

[Angela Fell- Northern ❤️ & Soul. Citizen of Wigan. @angelafell]

Make money sacred by backing it with the things that have become sacred to us.

Today, access to money, via credit, goes to those who are likely to expand the realm of goods & services. In a sacred economy, it will go to those who contribute to a more beautiful world.

[Homeless Hub @ItsHomelessHub]

really liked this

[Marie Lisa @matirdaeg]

Marie Lisa - Poetrycall Reverence (2024) (Full Album Premiere) https://t.co/dlg4bOjwcf via @YouTube
"in the wood" is a superb youtube channel with incredible musicians, I'm very lucky to share with you that my first Ep is going to be part of the channel :)