Fundamental
Needs Lab

Deepening our understanding of social attitudes towards individuals enduring deep poverty — those who lack food, shelter, and basic security.

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Absolute homeless
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Inadequate housing
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Of 195 countries
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Institute of Global Homelessness · UN-Habitat · Ruff Institute

About the Lab

The Fundamental Needs Lab bridges the gap between those with plenty and those with plenty of need — documenting and mitigating biases against the impoverished, with attention to how poverty intersects with race, gender, and disability.

Led by Charles Crabtree (Senior Lecturer, Monash University; K-Club Professor, Korea University), the lab produces research across class-based discrimination, public opinion measurement, homelessness, and first-generation representation in the academy.