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9 DePaul J. Soc. Just. 1 (2015-2016)

handle is hein.journals/depjsj9 and id is 1 raw text is: DEPAUL JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ORGANIZING IN DETROIT SOUP KITCHENS FOR POWER AND JUSTICE Gregory B. Markus* INTRODUCTION Americans who have little or no regular income and who may be homeless or precariously housed confront multiple challenges in their daily lives. Some of the challenges are personal, perhaps the result of bad choices or bad luck. Others, including some that may appear to be personal at first blush, arise from structural factors, including misguided, obtuse, or downright unjust public policies and legal institutions.1 For example, the rollout of the federal REAL ID Act of 20052 has made it difficult, and in some cases impossible, for millions of impoverished citizens and legal residents to acquire state identification cards or driver's licenses.3 Without ID, they may be unable to rent an apartment, apply for employment, or even vote. Another example consists of current laws and policies that impede men and women with criminal records from obtaining employment or stable housing. Unsurprisingly, such individuals experience high rates of poverty and homelessness.4 Or consider the laws in an increasing number of localities that criminalize activities indigent persons can * University of Michigan and Detroit Action Commonwealth 1 JOHN ICELAND, POVERTY IN AMERICA: A HANDBOOK (University of California Press, 3rd ed. 2013); Barrett A. Lee et al., The New Homelessness Revisited, 36 ANN. REV. OF Soc. 501 (2010); Mark R. Rank et al., American Poverty as a Structural Failing: Evidence and Arguments, 30 J. OF SOC. AND SOC. WELFARE 3 (2003); William Julius Wilson, The Political and Economic Forces Shaping Concentrated Poverty, 123 POL. SCI. Q. 555 (2008); WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED: THE INNER CITY, THE UNDERCLASS, AND PUBLIC POLICY (University of Chicago Press, 2nd ed. 2012). 2 REAL ID Act of 2005, Pub. L. No. 109-13, 119 Stat. 231. ' Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, Citizens without Proof, http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/downloadfile_39242. pdf/; Richard Sobel, The High Cost of 'Free'Photo Voter Identification Cards, Cambridge (Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, Harvard Law School 2014), http://today.law.harvard.edu/wpcontent/uploads/2014/06/FullReportVoterlDJun e20141.pdf/ 4 Wendy Heller, Poverty: The Most Challenging Condition of Prisoner Release 13 GEO. J. ON POVERTY L. & POL'Y 219 (2006); Caterina G. Roman & Jeremy Travis, Taking Stock: Housing, Homelessness, and Prisoner Reentry (2004); Caterina G. Roman & Jeremy Travis, Where Will I Sleep Tomorrow? Housing, Homelessness, and the Returning Prisoner 17 Housing Policy Debate, 389 (2006); Anthony C. Thompson, Navigating the Hidden Obstacles to Ex- Offender Reentry, 45 B.C. L. REV. 255 (2004). Volume 8, Issue 1r I Winter 2015

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