From Brooklyn to Santa Barbara
Closer to Home explores the fragile state of belonging in America today through in-depth personal interviews conducted over a 3,800 mile cross-country walk.In 2022 alone, three million Americans were displaced from their homes due to climate disasters. Hate crimes have risen to their highest levels in a decade, one in four Americans fears being attacked in their own neighborhood, and 71% of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.
In 2023, the American Immigration Council found that 74% of Americans report feeling like they don’t belong in their local communities. Given the rising tide of discomfort about everything from community to country, do any of us feel at home outside the four walls we shelter in?