(WIB) – They’re often overlooked by society — and even blamed for not being able to overcome a centuries-long, systemic system that seeks to keep poor people at the bottom. But Jaiye Kamson, a multimedia artist and archive assistant with the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD), says unhoused people are more than the prejudices and stereotypes placed on them. They’re leaders, community activists, and even artists.

Kamson knows that first-hand. She spent several years unhoused herself.

“Art helped me through that experience by giving me something to focus on,” she says. “The art I created through that experience wasn’t always positive because I wasn’t in a positive place in that time in my life. But what it did give me is a sense of control over something. It allowed me to conceptualize

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