🌼 We put together a very simple mini explainer to highlight why houseless neighbors refuse to enter the shelter system, why the demand is for #HousingNotShelters, and what you can do to help (hint: ask and find out!). instagram.com/p/CcRu82usU8T/

While the shooter was wandering around downtown Manhattan, the NYPD counter-terror unit was a few blocks away harassing a handful of homeless people in a few tents. So shockingly enough, a random guy found the attacker, not the police.

Tomorrow is another chance to come out and defend unhoused New Yorkers from the cops who keep trying to disappear them. Bring a box of coffee, introduce yourself, film the police and no one else— it’s basically just being a good neighbor.

NYC police are storming the tents of homeless New Yorkers while they try to pack up and move their belongings. For weeks the mayor has made daily attacks, trying to disappear these same individuals— all they need to get off the street is housing, which NYC has but won’t provide.

Money can be turned into love! To buy an unhoused New Yorker a new tent: dreamlist.com/for/wspma Or send real digital cash! The groups showing up for homeless neighbors alchemically transform dollars into care: Venmo: WSP Mutual Aid Cashapp: $wspmutualaid Follow:NYC Sweep Alerts

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for people to show up to these sweeps. The cops showed up earlier than usual hoping that press and defenders wouldn’t be present. Without eyes on them, this violence will escalate. Follow NYC Sweep Alerts and show up for your community.

About 40% of homeless people in NYC are gainfully employed. I was among them.

.Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s policies push people from the subways to the streets, then the streets to the subways, without offering housing. All the while, homeless people suffer more than they already are and lose any remaining trust or faith in homeless outreach and its ability to help them.

On this #Easter Sunday, the city of New York is sweeping unhoused New Yorkers, including 4 people who live next to a church.

“You know who I am. You know what I want: Apartments” This is why so many people find working with outreach so frustrating. People continue to have to share their personal information, their name, date of birth, etc. and don’t feel like they’re getting anything in return.

Please spread the word. Unhoused New Yorkers are fighting for their right to exist & not be hidden out of sight in an extremely expensive shelter hell. Tmrrw (Weds) morning, East Village, 9th St & Ave B, 7am on. Bring treats, bring your heart. Follow NYC Sweep Alerts for updates.

i just watched 33 cops arrest 2 unhoused people in order to sweep an encampment of 5, the entire nyc housing policy is eviction at gunpoint

I'm shaken. I walked out of my place this morning to find one more time NYPD NEWS NYC Sanitation harassing homeless people. Along w a neighbor walking her dog we talked to the officers asked them to stop treating homeless people like they are the problem ⁦Carlina Rivera⁩

NYC arrested one of the members of the Tompkins Homeless Collective multiple times this week but they can’t stop him from calling out the abuses of the NYC shelter system & demanding apartments for all homeless New Yorkers.

Truly good article from thoughtful NY Times writer Andy Newman “They got 250,000 vacant apartments in the city, man,” Mr. Grima yelled as the police surrounded the encampment. “Why am I homeless? Why are my friends homeless?” nytimes.com/2022/05/04/nyr…

Today I spent an hour trying to help a woman sleeping on my stoop get a safe haven bed (aka a room she doesn’t have to share w/ 30 people). After a long process we were told nothing is available. There are no safe options for people living on the street to come inside.

Last week I couldn’t get a safe haven bed for an elder woman sleeping on my stoop. Turns out the mayor is spending $29 million dedicated to safe haven funds on something else, most likely cops. He wants to disappear and punish homeless people, not help them.

"It was either we shut up or we speak up! So we decided to speak up. We were in the streets. If it wasn't in the streets, it was on the phone. If it wasn't on the phone, it was on social media." 📢 - Maria T. Walles on the history of #JulyHomelessRights #HomelessRightsMonth

Incredibly sad. This is the 2nd time this year that homeless NYers have been targeted in a string of attacks. Stigma kills--as our friend Carl Garrison has said, “You can’t talk about people as being vermin and being ‘disgusting animals’ without it having a repercussion.” (1/2)

Tomorrow morning, 8am— help is needed to support neighbors living outside and help them avoid being brutalized by the police.