Erin Goodling

Erin Goodling is WRAP’s Research and Development Director. Erin works with grassroots organizations on research and writing focused on homelessness, housing, environmental justice, and social movements. She organizes with WRAP member Right 2 Survive, a houseless-led group based in Portland, Oregon. Previously, she was a teacher for nearly a decade, working in public schools and with homeless youth in Portland, San Francisco, and Ewa Beach, Hawai’i. Erin has a PhD in Urban Studies from Portland State University.

Cities Must Stop Homeless Sweeps And Instead Provide People With Concrete Opportunities For Housing

In order to get real about addressing homelessness in America, we need to get real about how we have demonized, dehumanized, and criminalized the presence of unhoused people in our local community.

Erin Goodling, Molly Beckhardt, Paul Boden

Sep 01, 2020

Defund The Police – And Abolish Laws Used To Target Vulnerable People

Making our communities safe requires not only the defunding of police departments, but also dismantling discriminatory laws that target survival activities such as sleeping, sitting, lying down, and eating in public space.

Erin Goodling, Molly Beckhardt, Paul Boden

Jun 26, 2020