1 in 5 homeless women in California left their most recent residence to escape domestic violence. We must ensure people have somewhere safe to go when they leave abusive relationships.

Read More:
📘 IPV Report
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📰 LA Times Article
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Holly Mitchell in 5 mins just got in the weeds and broke down why public service delivery systems are so broken. ‘It is obscene to think that government is going to expect non-profits to carry us.’ 🔥

Berkeley’s unsheltered homeless population declined by 45%, 803 to 445 over two years, by permanently housed nearly 1,200 people experiencing homelessness in converted former motels and doubled their shelter acceptance rate over the past three years.
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A brilliant simile to make the the harm of encampment evictions more relatable:

“It’s the equivalent of having your house burned down multiple times a year — just over and over again, you’re losing everything and starting from scratch each time,”

Repealing Prop 47 would be a costly mistake, increasing recidivism, homelessness & racial inequities. ⁦UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative⁩ Dr ⁦Meghan Morris⁩ explains how in ⁦L.A. Times Opinion⁩

⁦The OpEd Project⁩ #PublicVoices latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Grab a tissue and watch this incredible video from Housing Forward NTX’s State of Homelessness Address. youtu.be/yUC3SNY4NLA?si…

“If Santa Monica police had knocked on my window any of those months I was tucked in my Toyota, I’d have a criminal record. That could have made it impossible to regain my job and income, pay child support, or be eligible for certain housing.”

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Can’t argue with this lede….

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This is an outstanding read. Well done, Lauren!

Antonia Fasanelli Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home Kentucky prohibited camping, among other things, this year. The FOP VP said that was “a real struggle for our membership. It may put our officers in a position where we have to do a lot more work, where we're really not going to get the best outcome that we're looking for.”

NEW: Analysis from the Alliance's Homelessness Research Institute compares how data-backed solutions to homelessness compare in effectiveness to punitive approaches (tickets, fines, arrests, etc.), in light of #JohnsonVGrantsPass .
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Read this….

Criminalization and forced encampment are grounded in the idea that you have force the unhoused to get treatment--as if it's easy for anyone to get a mental health treatment or a recovery bed even if they are housed and have a job (It's not). (13/x)

No one wants to be homeless. Full stop. It's terrible. Never really sleeping. Always on guard against attack and rape and harassment. The huge loneliness of having nowhere to go all day. The shame of asking for change and seeing most people walk by without looking at you (8/x).

I struggle to think of another public policy debate that so uniformly rests on broad assumptions and then refuses to see that the homeless are . . . complex people? Adults? Fully functioning human beings in a terrible situation? (5/x)

An outrageous statement. The McPherson raid went against the government’s own guidance, and failed to rehouse the majority of residents.

Simply Making homelessness less visible is a political shell game, not a solution.

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“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.” - Ann Marie Oliva at #SCOTUS

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: 'All humans engage in the act in question: sleeping. And yet the ordinance operates to penalize only certain individuals, those who have no choice but to do that act in public.'

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TODAY: oral arguments for the first major #SCOTUS case on homelessness since the 1980s.

Ann Marie Oliva: 'We will be watching this case closely in hopes that it brings much-needed focus to evidence-based solutions to homelessness.'

Full statment:
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