"Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making," warns António Guterres. Our responsibility now is to ensure equitable responses, including centering disability rights in planned relocation. hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

cant get enough 🔥🔥 John Raphling hrw.org/sites/default/… The criminalization of houselessness means treating people who live on the streets as criminals and directing resources towards arresting and citing them, institutionalizing them, removing them from visible public spaces,

Sweeps of unhoused encampments are harmful and bad policy. Gavin Newsom should know better. End criminalization; support a right to housing. Human Rights Watch, LA CAN, WRAP Destroying Encampments Isn’t a Solution to Houselessness - Progressive.org

Housing in LA is musical chairs. 1 in 2 people struggle to sit down. 50% of households cannot afford their housing costs. 500,000 people lack access to affordable housing. People are left out.

I know its really scary for people to face the truth: A lot of the people on the street didn't make "bad" choices. Normal life things happened to them: Layoffs, death of a loved one, illness. That's all it takes and you're on the street.

Victims of the recent fires will be subject to the criminalization policies that do nothing to solve the crisis of homelessness. John Raphling #LosAngeles #wildfires progressive.org/op-eds/los-ang…

John Raphling with Human Rights Watch and Lex Steppling from LA CAN break it down youtube.com/watch?v=X94F9D…

That's led to a situation where we have plenty of, perhaps even too much housing at the high end of the market, and then for regular working people, there's a huge shortage. John Raphling from Human Rights Watch. What's next? Listen to think it through.

More from part 2 of our housing dialogue with the great John Raphling about his incredible report on housing in L.A.

To be without a home is to be criminalized

Harassing, ticketing, and arresting the unhoused is essentially a cottage industry for police and the court system.

Take a peek at All People’s Health Collective’s written and video pieces! Most recently, Lex Steppling and John Raphling break down homelessness in #LosScandelous, the city of broken dreams, brought to ruin by corrupt elected officials. 🔥 …lpeopleshealthcollective.substack.com

🚨 Human Rights Watch urges US to end efforts to arrest & deport int'l students & scholars over political views & activism on #Palestine. John Raphling: “The #Trump administration’s actions are an attack on free speech and threaten the very foundations of a free society.” hrw.org/news/2025/04/0…