Mindy Woods @Hopedealer19
Housing/Homelessness Warrior, Social Justice Organizer, Veteran, Boy Mom. 🏠 🥑 *Opinions are my own. Edmonds, WA Joined November 2017-
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Criminalization is not a solution to homelessness. We can’t lose sight of what ends homelessness: affordable homes! Congress must pass long-term solutions to ensure that people with the lowest incomes have a stable, affordable home. Learn more: nlihc.org/housed
“Homelessness is not a glorified vacation. People are dying!” —@RevDrBarber #JohnsonVGrantsPass
POWERFUL! #HomesSolveHomelessness #HousingNotHandcuffs
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@annymoliva reminding us we must fund the long term solutions to #homelessness we know work: affordable housing and supportive services. That includes rent assistance and health care.#HousingNotHandcuffs cbpp.org/blog/solutions…
Like air, food, and water, housing is a basic necessity! #HousingSolvesHomelessness #HousingNotHandcuffs
Like air, food, and water, housing is a basic necessity! #HousingSolvesHomelessness #HousingNotHandcuffs
Today, as SCOTUS hears #JohnsonVGrantsPass, let’s remember there are alternatives to arresting people experiencing homelessness that communities can act on now. #HomelessnessIsSolvable #HousingNotHandcuffs
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The @NewDemCoalition Housing Action Plan includes @NLIHC's top priorities - universal rental assistance, full funding for the national Housing Trust Fund, & ongoing Emergency Rental Assistance to prevent evictions - to essentially end homelessness in America! Let's do it!
The @NewDemCoalition Housing Action Plan includes @NLIHC's top priorities - universal rental assistance, full funding for the national Housing Trust Fund, & ongoing Emergency Rental Assistance to prevent evictions - to essentially end homelessness in America! Let's do it!
What an honor for our Resident Organizing Networks—@RAPWashington, @ROCOregon, @ResidentsUnited, and @Residents4LA to have been recognized for our organizing around housing and homelessness last night at the @NLIHC Housing Forum Leadership Awards! #NLIHCForum2024 @WLIHA
And @rahemaah and @Hopedealer19 were honored to be there for this exciting announcement! @WLIHA
And @rahemaah and @Hopedealer19 were honored to be there for this exciting announcement! @WLIHA
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@FuturewiseWA @BAYadon @RAPWashington @WLIHA @Hopedealer19 "If you want to do something about homelessness, you must keep people in the homes they have now. Please prioritize the safety and wellbeing of the people living in this state." -Kasey Burton of the Tenants Law Center
@FuturewiseWA @BAYadon @RAPWashington @WLIHA @Hopedealer19 @habitatskc Labor steward of the grocery workers union testifying in support saying many of their union members are in crisis with the cost of housing. Reminds the commenters in opposition that this is a stabilization bill and not a control bill.
Our purpose is in our name. ✊
This is the problem with housing being seen as a commodity and profit source rather than a basic human need and human right.
This is the problem with housing being seen as a commodity and profit source rather than a basic human need and human right.
Susan Paine @smpaine
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Luke Distelhorst (he/.. @LukeDistelhorst
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6K Followers 2K Following He/him. I get to represent the neighborhood I grew up in as our State Senator. I also chair the Senate Transportation Committee and co-wrote #MoveAheadWA. 🟧
LauraJohnson@LAJohnso.. @LAJohnsonTweets
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81K Followers 1K Following U.S. Representative for California's 35th District. @AppropsDems @HouseAdm_Dems
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@dianeyentel @HannahLebovits Mayor Jim Ross will be attending a national meeting on homelessness whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
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The full audio of the oral arguments is here: supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments…
“The state police power is broad, but it does not include the power to push the burdens of social problems like poverty on to other communities or the power to satisfy public demand by compromising individual constitutional rights.” - Johnson counsel
“Indeed, all the ordinances do is turn the City's homelessness problem into someone else's problem by forcing its homeless residents into other jurisdictions.” - Johnson counsel
“The ordinances by design make it physically impossible for homeless people to live in Grants Pass without facing endless fines and jail time.” - Johnson counsel
“Wasn’t Grants Pass's first policy choice to put people on buses so they would leave the city? Isn’t that the history of GP? Didn't the city council president say ‘our intent is to make it so uncomfortable here that they'll move elsewhere”? - Sotomayor
Kavanaugh: When you get out of jail if you end up there under this law -- what's going to happen then? You still don't have a bed available. So how does this help? GP counsel: Umm…
Justice Kavanaugh: If there’s a mismatch between the # of shelter beds available and the # of homeless people, there will be some people that have nowhere to go. What should we do about that? GP counsel: Umm…
GP counsel: these [criminalization] laws are an important tool in helping incentivize people to accept shelter. Justice Kavanaugh: How does it help if there aren’t enough shelter beds for the number of homeless people in the jurisdiction?
GP counsel: This is a complicated policy question Justice Sotomayor: What’s so complicated about letting someone – somewhere – sleep with a blanket outside if they have no place else to sleep?
Where do we put unhoused people if every city and every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this? Where are they supposed to sleep? Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?” - Justice Sotomayor
GP counsel: “We think it’s not compassionate for people to be living in public spaces, living in those conditions.” Justice Sotomayor: “Oh, it’s not. But neither is providing them with nothing to alleviate that situation.”
“The Grants Pass intent – stated by your mayor – is to remove every homeless person and give them no public space to sit down with a blanket, or lay down with a blanket, and fall asleep.” - Justice Sotomayor
“It seems both cruel and unusual to punish people for acts that constitute basic human needs. Here, we’re talking about sleeping, which is universal, it is a basic human function.” - Justice Ketanji Brown
“The Grants Pass ordinance goes way beyond [issues of public safety]. It says a person who has no other place to sleep cannot take himself and a blanket and sleep someplace without it being a crime.”- Justice Kagan
“Sleeping is a biological necessity, like breathing. Presumably, you wouldn’t think it’s ok to criminalize breathing in public. And for a homeless person who has no place else to go, sleeping in public is kind of like breathing in public” - Justice Kagan
“If a homeless person had $200 to spend [on a ticket from Grants Pass for sleeping outside], don’t you think they would just stay at a hotel?” - Justice Sotomayor
NJ Housing & Community Development Association Shares Condolences on Rep. Donald Payne Jr. Passing hcdnnj.org/index.php?opti… @staciberger
We are so saddened by the passing of Rep. Donald Payne. Our members and staff met with him just a few weeks ago in DC where he reiterated his commitment to housing justice for all. We send our deepest condolences to his family & friends. May his memory be for a blessing always.
NJ Housing & Community Development Association Shares Condolences on Rep. Donald Payne Jr. Passing hcdnnj.org/index.php?opti… @staciberger
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