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HOUSING: A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT

Aesthetic Realism Explains the Cause of America’s Housing Crisis & the Solution!

A groundbreaking presentation about homelessness in America—and the crucial fact that it can be eradicated when the underlying cause is seen and changed—

“I feel passionately that when people learn to see other human beings as having insides, hopes, feelings as real as their own, homelessness will be a thing of the past. And I want people to know what is in these sentences from Self and World by Eli Siegel: ‘The world should be owned by the people living in it….All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.'”  —Ken Kimmelman, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker

The speakers—

Barbara Buehler, New York City planner [retired]
Dale Laurin, architect
Anthony Romeo, architect
Ken Kimmelman, Emmy-winning filmmaker

They tell what they’ve seen through their study of Aesthetic Realism, the education founded by the American philosopher and poet Eli Siegel, about the cause of the housing crisis in America—the contempt at the basis of our economic system—how it begins in every person, and how it can change.

WDAPD-girl-with-staff0008Presented at—

  • Hunger Action, Vassar College
  • Pace University Periclean Project, NYC
  • Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
  • New York Anti-Hunger League, New York University
  • Campus Outreach Opportunity League (COOL) National Conference, Harvard
  • Nat’l Student Campaign Against Hunger & Homelessness, U. of Maryland
  • Boston University’s Keynote at Community Service Education Week
  • Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
  • American Institute of Architects National Convention, Philadelphia

What Does a Person Deserve? —

Shown in this presentation is the award-winning public service film against homelessness and hunger produced by Ken Kimmelman, What Does a Person Deserve? based on statements by Eli Siegel, including these sentences from his book Self and World: “The world should be owned by the people living in it.…All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.”

  • Dale Laurin, RA, moderator, speaks about how he came to see people and his profession differently—and to feel that for other human beings to live without homes is an outrage that architects and others must do everything we can to end.
  • Barbara Buehler, Associate City Planner [retired], NYC Department of City Planning, presents “Housing: a Basic Human Right“—documenting the horrible extent of homelessness in New York City, with a new, crucial understanding of the cause.
  • Ken Kimmelman, President, Imagery Film Ltd., shows his public service film What Does a Person Deserve? —and speaks about the film’s meaning and what impelled him to make it.
  • Anthony C. Romeo, RA, tells of the critical state of housing for senior citizens, and what he learned about the relation of beauty and ethics—what’s needed to end the brutally unjust situation we have now.

Housing is a basic human right, and should not be a means of profit for landlords and developers.

America can have good housing for everyone!

housingaright.org

Photographs: Clark Jones Man in the Park; Harvey Finkle Girl in Philadelphia Tent City

Film by Ken Kimmelman

Here we present a work of art that—more than any other we know—can bring people the true composure and strength of mind and feeling everyone is thirsting for. See the stirring film of Eli Siegel’s prize-winning poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana.

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