(Re-)framing the Homeless Experience

Exploring Homeless Lives and Identities on TikTok and YouTube

Despite growing rates of homelessness throughout the world, the phenomenon continues to be highly stigmatized, and the individuals affected, dehumanized. Homeless people are depicted as lamentable, dirty, lazy, undeserving, and a threat to society. They exist as “shadowy” figures on the outskirts of society, unwelcome and undesirable in public space…