On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch released an in-depth report by John Raphling on homelessness in Los Angeles, with a focus on how the city criminalizes unhoused people. You can read the full report, but we wanted to highlight a few big takeaways - thread below! hrw.org/report/2024/08…

Just wrapped up John Raphling’s report “You Have To Move” 🔥🔥🔥 A must-read! Big kudos to Adam Silver for the documentary 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Check out the piece on how Los Angeles criminalizes unhoused people: hrw.org/news/2024/08/1…

🇹🇳 In #Tunisia, prospective candidates have been pushed out from the presidential race. At least 8 have been sentenced to prison terms or lifetime bans on running for election since July 14, with others experiencing harassment and intimidation. Human Rights Watch hrw.org/news/2024/08/2…

HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Houselessness in LA and across the US is a housing crisis. Criminalization does not help people get housed.

"Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making," warns António Guterres. Our responsibility now is to ensure equitable responses, including centering disability rights in planned relocation. hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

This is mirrored in our Human Rights Watch research on the criminalization of unhoused people in LA. Unhoused people were the victims of homocide at 17x the rate of housed people.

cant get enough 🔥🔥 John Raphling hrw.org/sites/default/… The criminalization of houselessness means treating people who live on the streets as criminals and directing resources towards arresting and citing them, institutionalizing them, removing them from visible public spaces,

Sweeps of unhoused encampments are harmful and bad policy. Gavin Newsom should know better. End criminalization; support a right to housing. Human Rights Watch, LA CAN, WRAP Destroying Encampments Isn’t a Solution to Houselessness - Progressive.org