Criminalization and Homelessness: “A disaster of human connectivity” – An Interview

Dreddz B.L. identifies as a Jamaican Canadian anti-suffering activist with
lived expertise of the shelter system and encampments. He is a beloved
community organizer who works with Voices from the Shelter Hotels and
the Toronto Union for the Homeless and Underhoused. He is dedicated
to fighting for unhoused people’s rights and well-being and for a more
inclusive and diverse society. Dreddz has much knowledge to share with
the world about the harms of the shelter system, as well as how poor and
unhoused people are treated.

Kim Jackson (they/them) identifies as white settler of Scottish ancestry,
coming from a mixed class background, having lived experience of
poverty and lumpen lifeways, and as queer and non-binary. They are a
writer, researcher, community engaged artist, poor people’s liberationist,
anti-colonial-capitalist, abolitionist, gardener, food enthusiast, winter lover
and care-giver working for an enlivened future of possibility.