 Independence Hall, Philadelphia — an American landmark that stands for the rights of all people
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This site describes a groundbreaking
presentation about homelessness in America—and the crucial fact that
it can
be eradicated only when the underlying cause is
seen and changed.
The speakers—New York City planner Barbara Buehler, architects Anthony Romeo and Dale Laurin, and Emmy-winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. 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.
 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, ending with the sentences quoted above, from 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, City Planner, NYC Department of City Planning (ret.), 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 What Does a Person Deserve?—and speaks about the film's meaning and what impelled him to make it. Anthony C. Romeo, AIA, 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! |
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