Interview with Mike Zint October 2017
Channel: Samar Habib
Date: 2020-02-17

Mike Zint passed away on Valentine's Day, 2020. He was the co-founder of First They Came for the Homeless, a grass roots activist group of unhoused people. In Mike's words, FTCFTH grew out of the Occupy movement in San Francisco.  

This is the raw footage of an interview I did with Mike in October 2017. 

As you can see, Mike was an insightful and articulate champion of the most basic human right to shelter. We hope that what he has to teach about designing an intentional community, involving homeless people in the design and decision process, and recognizing that the commons really belong to the people -- regardless of their socioeconomic status -- will no longer fall on deaf ears.