Letter from the Editors
Thank you for reading Issue 3 of Volume 32 of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. This Issue brings together a wide range of author backgrounds, voices, and […]
Buying Time
With more than 2.7 million households in the United States facing eviction each year, eviction has reached a crisis level. The consequences of eviction are consider-able, both in terms of […]
We are Exactly the Same, We are Totally Different: People in Poverty's Dual Narrative in Striving for Epistemic Standing
After Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, his successors led one last march on Washington. This was “the Poor People’s Campaign” – a campaign planned by King before his death, […]
Sleeping Together: Rhetorics of Displacement from Underpass to Grants Pass
This Note explores the interplay between public art, homelessness, and urban policy through an analysis of Rain and Lightweave, two installations in Washington, D.C.’s NoMa district. These works, commissioned as […]
Sneak Attacks: Workplace Raids and the Politics of Information
This paper argues that worker protection necessarily includes worker information protection. As a case study, this paper considers the problem of immigration enforcement agencies’ workplace raids in meatpacking plants. Collective […]
Unwanted Dollars, Unwanted Tenants: Source of Income Discrimination and a Proposed Federal Remedy
Source of income (SOI) discrimination remains a pernicious and pervasive barrier to the success of the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program and its housing security, desegregation, and anti-poverty objectives. […]