An activist sees homelessness as addressable through government pressure coupled with direct personal care

Evidence

Eleanor (on whether homelessness is a do-able ^ since activists did not focus in interviews on whether issues were close to home'' and do-able,” I began to ask them about it near the end of interviews, trying to ¢nd out why all volunteers and no activists routinely used these phrases): Sure it is. We can pressure our county supervisors, we can pressure the state legislators, we can pressure the U.S. government ^ after all, we are the government. And we can [she pauses] again, we can make a di¡erence with individual people. When you see kids who don’t have a home address in your classroom, and you know damn well they’re living in a car, that’s hard. That’s unbelievably hard. And there should be some kind of program, local program, for developing housing. Some kind of low income housing. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 109

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the activist’s operative definition of ‘do-able’: meaningful even when not solved, because pressure + individual care both count as action.
• corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 109
• XREF: connects to: Volunteers and activists invert whether a problem must be political to merit care. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 108