#HousingIsAHumanRight, and fundamental to enjoying other human rights, like the right to a decent education. You can’t learn when you’re worried if your parents will be arrested for sheltering you in a car or tent, or you’ll be taken from them.

This is the most shocking footage I've seen from the Florida Rain Bomb. A shell shocked person sitting in his inundated car, later losing his glasses. A family showing the flooded house they'd just rebuild. Hoping flood insurance will cover. Real lives x.com/astutegaba/sta…

In the case of #JohnsonVGrantsPass, the cruelty towards homeless people is the point. If SCOTUS sides with Grants Pass, housed people like picknickers could freely use blankets in public, but unhoused people could be arrested or fined. Learn more: johnsonvgrantspass.com

Check out this excellent thread of Local Progress officials including my own Councilmember Kendra Brooks emphasizing that #HousingNotHandcuffs is how we end homelessness. Gives me hope in this dark time!

NYC based NHLC Staff Attorney, Siya Hegde, joins organizers, Lynn Lewis and Rob Robinson, in highlighting how New York has "the resources to solve our city’s #housingcrisis." #HousingIsAHumanRight #EndHomelessness Read their full opinion piece here: loom.ly/vDtQkps

“Regardless of the court’s decision, we must declare as a nation that our people are not disposable.” Sobering and excellent reading from Congresswoman Cori Bush and Stephanie Sena #HousingNotHandcuffs #HousingIsAHumanRight

Housing is a Human Right #nchv #grantspass #veterans #untilnoveternishomeless

Thanks Maxine Waters U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Now, more than ever, we need #HousingNotHandcuffs.

"Did you know that it is now a crime to be homeless? Pay attention. They are attacking our most vulnerable citizens." Thank you Taraji P. Henson for speaking up about #JohnsonVGrantsPass!

To speak of criminalization without naming the prison industrial complex (PIC) or carceral state, much less the strategy by which we dismantle it, feels like writing a biography without a central character. Moreover, the sentiments smack of appropriation.. dmichaeldurham.com/writing/crimin…

Anyone coming to the End Homelessness conference, come to the post-Grants Pass listening session to share your questions, thoughts, and concerns, Tuesday, 8am: whova.com/xems/apis/open…

“You could read this term with the framework of: Who seems vulnerable, who seems powerful?” she said. “Trump is vulnerable; homeless people are not. It’s this strange inverted world.” via @NYTOpinion nytimes.com/2024/07/12/opi…

That surreal moment when Ben & Jerry’s comments on Johnson v Grants Pass. I’ll pick myself up a pint to celebrate…

STATEMENT: Gavin Newsom rejects *proven* housing & services solutions to bust encampments! This is a direct consequence of the #SCOTUS decision that ruled people who cannot afford a place to live and have no shelter options can be thrown in jail! SHAME! vocal-ny.com/rcl59gf

I said what I said.

Sharing this excellent reporting on what actually is required at the Grants Pass Gospel Rescue Mission. #johnsonvgrantspass #housingnothandcuffs

“Arresting, fining people, and impounding their vehicles for trying to survive is expensive, counterproductive, and cruel,” says Eric Tars, senior policy director for the Law Center. #HousingNotHandcuffs Read more: loom.ly/q7V_tc0

Tomorrow! Join PPP and NHLC for a discussion of how organizers and advocates can move forward after the SCOTUS decision in Grants Pass. PPP is proud to stand with the lawyers and organizers working to ensure human rights and dignity for all. Register here! peoplesparity.org/event/nhlc/

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“It makes you feel hunted, you know, like a fugitive,” Jones says of local laws that criminalize sleeping in public spaces. ​“It’s hard for me to get across just how counterproductive these sweeps are.” #HousingNotHandcuffs READ: loom.ly/vrH5CgA