Racism and Housing Inequality: A Conversation About Homelessness with Shams DaBaron (aka Da Homeless Hero)

Let’s talk about homelessness and racism. As a white man, I can never fully grasp the impact of centuries of slavery, oppression, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, the war on drugs, etc… but I can easily see that African Americans make up about 14% of the general population and around 40% of the homeless population. We cannot talk about homelessness without facing systemic racism head on. In this episode Shams DaBaron, aka “Da Homeless Hero” shares his origin story and how experiencing homelessness led him to finding his voice as an advocate for the unhoused.