Published: 2019-12-31

To learn one’s home. Training apartments – training in an apartment

Piotr Jordan Śliwiński
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.012

Abstract

In the landscape of a large Polish city, one can notice homeless people, but also activities that help them survive in this difficult state and go out of it. In Cracow, such activities are undertaken, among others, by the Saint Father Pio Aid Centre. One of the phases of getting out of homelessness is staying at a “training flat”, the aim of which is for a person to learn to look after a flat and manage their earned resources. Based on observation, analysis of documents and interviews with employees of the Centre, the article tries to show the difficult path to “learn one’s home”.

Keywords:

training flat, homelessness, help for the homeless

Citation rules

Śliwiński, P. (2019). To learn one’s home. Training apartments – training in an apartment. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 17, 203–210. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE17.2019.012

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