Social Inc is hosting a Wednesday Film Recommendation.
All Mohawk College students can access this film for free through YouTube.
This week:
"If Anybody's Listening, We Just Want a Place to Go"
"If you live in one of America’s cities, you probably see homeless people all the time. You might pass them on your way to work. Maybe you avoid eye contact. If they ask you for money, maybe you pretend you didn’t hear, and walk on by.
But what if you stopped and listened to what they have to say?
As you’ll see in the Opinion video above, you might find their stories of landing on the streets strikingly relatable. Such accounts reveal a hard truth about our country: Amid an affordable housing crisis, where 70 percent of all extremely low-income families today pay more than half their income on rent, becoming homeless is easier than we’d like to think.
That’s what Mark Horvath discovered firsthand in 1995, when he lost his job and wound up homeless for eight years. He started interviewing people on the street in 2008, and began sharing those stories on his YouTube channel, Invisible People. He wanted to try to help viewers who might ignore their homeless neighbors see them not with scorn, or indifference, but empathy."
Sensitive Content Warning: This film has content that may be sensitive and triggering. Viewer discretion advised.
Watch "If Anybody's Listening, We Just Want a Place to Go" here.