Homeless heard online

I SUSPECT most readers are Zoomed out by now – months of attending meetings via a laptop has made us blasé about online events. But a group of homeless men and women were Zoom novices this week and their presence re-invigorated the rest of us who were engaging with them.

We were all attending the annual two-day National Conversation about Homelessness, the fourth such event and the first to be held online. Lock-down restrictions prevented a face-to-face conference,