Midterm Question 3 Response - Brooke Cambra
3. Choose a problem of acute poverty in your country and describe a global social work intervention you could create (assume you have plenty of resources) to remedy that problem. Briefly summarize the poverty-correcting intervention and then describe how you would apply it. I want to address homelessness and housing insecurity in the US using the Capability Approach. To begin, it is important to address the sociopolitical history of the United States' institutional and systematic racism, economic inequality, and changes in the Welfare State due to politics and postindustrial capitalism that has resulted in the current homelessness crisis our country is experiencing. However, it is incredibly difficult and time consuming to start by addressing the root problem of capitalism and conservative political agendas, and people need help now. The homelessness crisis did not come out of nowhere and it does not impact communities equally. Institutional and systematic racism has impacted B...