About This Lesson
Teach about homelessness and affordable housing solutions with Unzipped: An Autopsy of American Inequality. This award-winning documentary explores housing inequity in the U.S. and shines a light on the housing crisis and the complex realities of homelessness. The Unzipped Learning Guide is designed to help individual learners, classroom teachers, homeschoolers, higher ed and adult educators, and community activists to deepen your experience of the film and bring informed discussions and practical policy ideas to your learning communities.
There are learning guide has five key sections:
- Barriers to Affordable Housing
- Economic and Social Costs of the Affordable Housing Crisis
- Perceptions and Beliefs About Housing
- The Value of Diverse Communities
- Criminalization of Poverty/Neglect of the Poor
Each key section includes: a driving question, useful terms (when applicable), personal reflection, discussion questions, extension activities and additional resources. These sections can be used on their own or in combination with other guide sections.
The guide wraps with a Housing Solutions Blueprint Builder and Appendices that include Case Studies, Further Context and a Glossary of Useful Terms.Get up-to-date information on how to watch the film and where to get educational licenses from Journeys in Film.
