received devastating news that my father passed away. in the meantime have to try and cover my room for the next couple days - please if you can retweet and hopefully a few folks can help a bit. I'm so sorry, thank you for being kind while I struggle ~ m paypal.com/donate/?hosted…

homeless, need to get ID to travel because dad died, can't get ID because live in hotel and no utility bill, can't get exception because no death certificate until I pay the mortuary. this is why people give up. Brian Goldstone #ThereIsNoPlaceForUs

🚨Report: HUD Secretary Scott Turner will introduce policy to remove illegal immigrants from Section 8 housing along with requiring all tenants to provide proof of their citizenship Do you support this policy by Scott Turner?

Folks interested in #SupportiveHousing: this new thesis on #BreakingGround. William Fainaru, "Housing First. Now What? Continuity of Care, Deinstitutionalization, and the Evolution of Mental Health Care in New York City", MS Urban Planning ‘25, Columbia U. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/5h…

Homeless folks and friends: What do you think about #MayorAdams' proposed #InvoluntaryCommitment law for #PeopleWhoUseDrugs? Good, bad, ugly? Or just a "desperate publicity stunt"?

As Houston cut 17,000 people off housing waiting lists, it instituted a 24/7 ban on homelessness downtown, reviving "ugly laws" of the 1860s. Those are #UglyLaws, but not because they ban "ugly people". invisiblepeople.tv/houstons-24-7-…

There are now two 2-person #LegionnairesDisease clusters in the Bronx: at Parkchester South Condominium and Parkchester North, Caroline Lewis. They come from the buildings' plumbing, not #CoolingTowers like in Harlem, and so are less likely to spread. gothamist.com/news/legionnai…

This article has a map with addresses of the #CoolingTowers at 10 #Harlem buildings, some city-owned, that tested positive for #Legionella bacteria that cause #LegionnairesDisease. (Folks anywhere: Bathe in tubs, not showers.) gothamist.com/news/nyc-healt…

I feel like rather than having inclusionary zoning or an affordable housing linkage fee, it would make a lot more sense to just have an excise tax on high rents, with the proceeds funding vouchers

From across the Pond, a profile of DJ #CharlieSloth, who was no sloth at all, working and caring for his child while homeless in #Camden, London. (landless will be happy to hear that he and his family lived in a #GardenShed.)

#OnThisDate in 2018, #MartinVBoise was decided. "[A]s long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the gov't cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter." homelessnewyorker.wordpress.com/2022/09/04/on-…