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Portland, OR. Handcuffed and Unhoused

Handcuffed and Unhoused, data reporter Melissa Lewis and producer Emily Harris investigate what happens when local residents call police on unhoused people in their neighborhood, analyzing arrest data across six major West Coast cities with large homeless populations.…

Medford, OR. Medford Updates — Winter in a City where Tents are Illegal | ¿Cómo es el invierno en una ciudad en la que las casas de campaña son ilegales?

What’s Winter like in a City where Tents are Illegal? We’re finally getting rain in Medford, Oregon, but the wet and cold weather means something different when you’re living outside. This will be the first winter since the City of…

Sacramento, CA. Today at 5PM City Hall – Services Not Sweeps! Just build the housing!

Bring signs. Services Not Sweeps! Just build the housing! Threats and displacement cause trauma! People want housing! Meet outside City Hall at 5PM. Also, attend city council zoom meeting to express your concerns. Ordinance isn’t suppose to be enacted…

Los Angeles, CA. Why are people being thrown out of Project Roomkey with no where to go?

Why are people being thrown out of Project Roomkey with no where to go? Why are people waiting for months on end (to over a year) without being connected to housing, or even to their caseworker? Why aren’t the promises…

Los Angeles, CA. AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: Coming Tomorrow Monday 11/8

Dear Friends, Tomorrow – Monday, November 8th, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is launching AUTOMATING BANISHMENT: THE SURVEILLANCE AND POLICING OF LOOTED LAND, our new report on data-driven policing’s relationship to real estate development and settler colonialism. This community-based report…

Portland, OR. Holding space for community.

by the Systemic Change Team – Sisters Of The Road It’s been a year of COVID restrictions, a year of having no community members in the cafe or opportunities for barter work, a year of six feet of separation, of…

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…

Los Angeles, CA. Fences

Every fence erected around a park represents LA’s continued failure to house houseless people. Every fence illegally placed on a sidewalk illustrates the “dirty divide,” primed, seemingly sanctioned and assisted by the government. Fences are the truest expression of banishment…

Denver, CO. DHOL Presentation of ‘Swept to Nowhere’ to City Council NOW VIRTUAL | August 18th 2021 at 10:30am

DHOL Presentation of ‘Swept to Nowhere’ to City Council NOW VIRTUAL Do not come in person – the meeting is now virtual Zoom Link: Safety, Housing, Education & Homelessness Committee (Safety & Housing): https://zoom.us/webinar/register/ WN_SrJLqP3TTRqWZrnyFczQ1A Password: Denver To call in…