Housing not handcuffs! #HomelessnessIsSolvable

Housing solves homelessness ✅🏡 #JohnsonVGrantsPass #HomelessnessIsSolvable

No one should be punished for being unable to afford rent or a home. My colleagues, advocates & I called on SCOTUS to choose housing NOT handcuffs & reject efforts to criminalize our unhoused communities.

Folks know that ticketing and fining people for sleeping outside with a blanket makes no sense. That's why so many people are in front of the court. They know housing solves homelessness. #JohnsonVGrantsPass

Ain’t no power like the power of the people ‘cuz the power of the people don’t stop! We out here, rallying in the hundreds, as SCOTUS prepares to hear #JohnsonvGrantsPass today. #HomelessnessIsSolvable #HousingNotHandcuffs

Arresting, ticketing, & otherwise punishing people for experiencing homelessness has been proved to do more harm than good. This #FairHousingMonth, House Democrats are committed to investing in building more fair & affordable housing to solve the root causes of homelessness.

Arresting fining and ticketing people does not make homelessness better. People do not choose to be homeless. It is the result of broken promises, mass incarceration and red lining. Donald Whitehead. We can do better! #JohnsonVGrantsPass

How do we know what works? Because we see it working for veterans, in Milwaukee, Houston, Newark, Chattanooga. Housing and supportive services work. "Our leaders need to support what's proven to work." - AMO #johnsonvgrantspass

"In Grants Pass, for every 10 of the lowest income renters, there are just 2 affordable & available apartments. Renters in Grants Pass and [everywhere] are struggling w/ high rents & wages that can’t keep up." - Diane Yentel

"Congress refuses to fix a broken housing system where 75% of people in need of housing assistance receive none. As a result, far too many people face eviction & become homeless." - Diane Yentel

“Congress refuses to fix a broken housing system where 75% of people in need of housing assistance don’t receive it. It doesn’t have to be this way. #HomelessnessIsSolvable…we will end homelessness when we build the political will to fully fund the solutions.” - Diane Yentel

THIS!!

“Our leaders need to support what is proven to work, rather than revert to failed policies of the past. Safe and affordable housing is a win for everyone because it makes us stronger- and communities will support leaders who fight for it.” - AMO at #SCOTUS

Here in solidarity with Terry, who lost his home in a tornado and then lost his job. Arrests, tickets and fines didn't get Terry into housing. Housing and support did. #johnsonvgrantspass

“For too long, our nation has gutted funding for public housing & thrown our tax dollars to policing & prisons. We work for the day when all handcuffs are welded into house keys, where the jails are empty and homes are full.” - India Pungarcher & Chaplain Lindsey Krinks

Enact the #HousingCrisisResponseAct now! The bill would represent the single largest investment in affordable housing in our nation’s history, creating nearly 1.4 million affordable & accessible homes, & helping nearly 300,000 households afford rent. tinyurl.com/yrub556p

PERIOD!

Thank you to all who attended today’s rally at the SCOTUS building to oppose the criminalization of homelessness! #HousingIsAHumanRight #Onward

The lead attorney arguing our side of the case in front of the Supreme Court broke away from other lawyers when she saw me saying, “You’re Mark Horvath. I just watched your video.” BAM! This made my day even better!

“Homelessness at its root is about a lack of affordable housing, and people are homeless because they don’t have access to decent, safe, affordable homes.” ~ @DianeYentel via NPR Here & Now wbur.org/hereandnow/202…