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Los Angeles, CA. Call to Action from the Unhoused Community in Van Nuys on 41.18

Dear Los Angeles, Tomorrow City Council is voting to ban the existence of a large encampment community in Van Nuys through 41.18 which will criminalize people from sitting, lying, or sleeping from certain areas including this street that many call…

Los Angeles, CA. Don’t believe the lies

This is what building power and community fact-checking looks like. Our own General Dogon found a LAHSA worker repeating the same false promises that we have heard since the inception of Project Roomkey, that its residents will be connected to…

Portland, OR. Letter to Mayor Wheeler, Commissioners, and Office of Management and Finance (OMF)

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Conceal, Criminalize, Capitalize: How government sanctioned tent cities promote the criminalization of homelessness under the guise of service

Jade Arellano / Western Regional Advocacy Project The community of unhoused Oaklanders living at Cob on Wood are anticipating the arrival of bulldozers any day now. Cob on Wood is one of the largest homeless encampments that currently exist…

Sacramento, CA. 85 YEARS LATER!

85 YEARS LATER! American River Parkway: 1936 and 2021: Exactly the same location! 1936 Photo by Dorothea Lange 2021 Photo – Joe Smith, Advocacy Director, Loaves & Fishes Join Loaves & Fishes Community Response to County’s Inaction for Families…

SANTA CRUZ, CA. ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ APPLICATION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BLOCKING THE SWEEP OF UNHOUSED AT SAN LORENZO PARK IN SANTA CRUZ.

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFFS’ APPLICATION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION BLOCKING THE SWEEP OF UNHOUSED AT SAN LORENZO PARK IN SANTA CRUZ. Today in a historic ruling Federal Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen granted the unhoused camping at San Lorenzo Park in Santa…

Oakland, CA. Oakland Implements Apartheid for Unhoused Residents

For Immediate Release Press Contact: Tiny Garcia (510) 435-7500 deeandtiny@gmail.com Oakland Implements Apartheid for Unhoused Residents At yesterdays Oakland city council meeting the extremely dangerous Encampment Management Policy was unanimously approved, which will result in the forced removal, further criminalization,…

San Francisco, CA. Cited in Plain Sight: How California Polices Being Black, Brown and Unhoused in Public!

The release of our new report revealed thousands of non-traffic infractions are disproportionately enforced on Black, Latinx and unhoused Californians each year, primarily for behavior that amounts to simply existing in public: sitting, sleeping, and loitering (standing). Here are resources…

Denver, Co. Funding for Sanitation Resources Going Well Thanks to YOU!! Can we make it to 25k??!

It is half way through September and we have made just over $14,000 toward maintaining our Sanitation Stations at encampments!! That is huge!!! THANK YOU SOOO MUCH to all of you who have donated to make this possible! With this…

Motion Filed Today for Hearing in Case for Housing | Denver, CO.

Motion Filed Today for Hearing in Case for Housing Read Full Motion Here >>>>>> On April 1st 2020 we filed a Writ of Mandamus to mandate Colorado Dep’t of Public Health do their job and open housing for people who…