Using ART to AMPLIFY Youth Voices on Housing Insecurity

The article reports on an arts and advocacy initiative launched in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia called A Place to Call Home. A discussion of the initiative's main objective, which was to engage and empower high risk young people and to allow them to voice their concerns about housing and health, is presented. The initiative featured 48 young people between the ages of 14 and 23 who worked consistently for six months, engaging in neighborhood photo documentation, photo-elicitation interviews regarding their own housing struggles and the creation of public art. Benefits which the young people received from participating in the initiative are discussed.