Sophie House

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Sophie House is a legal fellow and the Jonathan Mechanic/Fried, Frank, Shriver & Jacobson Fellow at the NYU Furman Center. Her work focuses on how cities approach issues related to housing, homelessness, and the use of public space.

https://furmancenter.org

Policy

Housing Policy Needs Abolition Too

January 14, 2021 | Krystle Okafor and Sophie House

Abolition—as a mode of mobilization and social change directed at the criminal legal system and elsewhere—remains widely misunderstood.

Policy

Housing Policy Must Change in Wake of COVID-19

March 24, 2020 | Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan and Sophie House

COVID-19 will hurt the low-income and housing insecure the most. We must act now to protect them—and ensure safe housing for all going forward. Here’s how.