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Housekeys Not Sweeps Campaign

Thirty-seven years after the advent of contemporary homelessness, it is time this country realize that we will not disappear nor cease to exist. We are demanding our rights and fighting like hell for ALL people (housed & unhoused) to be treated with the dignity and respect all people deserve.

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ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW AND HOUSE KEYS SWEEPS CAMPAIGN ORIENTATION
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HOUSE KEYS NOT SWEEPS – WRAP POSITION PAPER ON SANCTIONED ENCAMPMENTS AND CRIMINALIZATION
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DEMANDS & GOALS
Houseless people often live in communities or “encampments” for their safety and well being.
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HOUSE KEYS NOT SWEEPS FACT SHEET
The forced disbanding of homeless communities and removal of homeless individuals from an area.
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Services Not Sweeps – Los Angeles

Where Do We Go Berkeley – Berkeley 

LOVE AND JUSTICE IN THE STREETS – Oakland 

Homeless Can’t Stay Home – NYC

Solutions Not Sweeps –
San Francisco

Sacramento Homeless Organizing Community – Sacramento 

Homeless Action! –
Santa Rosa

Street Watch Los Angeles – Los Angeles

Stop the Sweeps Coalition – Portland

The Village In Oakland – Oakland 

Housekeys Action Network Denver

The East Oakland Collective – Oakland

Philadelphia Housing Action – Philadelphia

Stop The Sweeps Austin – Austin 

Houseless people often live in communities or “encampments” for their safety and well being. Belongings and community are necessary for survival, but private and public agencies have deemed both these things illegal and are aggressively and violently policing, sweeping, harassing and attacking our houseless neighbors. They are evicted from their encampments and their life preserving belongings are repeatedly stolen.

These cruel and unnecessary acts are an extraordinary waste of resources and cause serious harm. Clearly our governments are not choosing the real solutions to homelessness– human rights, livable incomes, healthcare, jobs, or a reinstatement of federal affordable housing funding. 

Demands & Goals/Read as PDF

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Llaves de Casa No Desalojos Leer en Español  

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House Keys Not Sweeps Fact Sheet

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Sweeps Incident Report Form

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Organizational Overview and House Keys Sweeps Campaign Orientation

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Conceal, Criminalize, Capitalize Presentation

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Demandas & Metas/Leer en Español

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House Keys Not Sweeps – WRAP Position Paper on Sanctioned Encampments and Criminalization

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

Working in partnership with the National Homelessness Law Center and the Systemic Justice Project, law students and WRAP’s local organizers created Know Your Rights pamphlets for ten communities working together in the House Keys Not Sweeps campaign.

Know Your Rights
Austin, TX 
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Know Your Rights
Portland, OR 
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Know Your Rights
San Francisco, CA 
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Know Your Rights
Chico, CA 
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Know Your Rights Sacramento, CA 
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Know Your Rights
Denver, CO 
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Know Your Rights
Santa Rosa, CA 
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Know Your Rights Oakland, CA 
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Know Your Rights
New York, NY 
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One of the questions we asked people we love about One of the questions we asked people we love about this continuing forty-year process of addressing the root causes of homelessness in America was recognizing that our comrade Paul has also been fighting this neoliberal bullshit for forty years. In earlier emails people spoke about the importance of WRAP. Here is what some of our friends had to say about Paul’s role over the last forty years. https://conta.cc/3vbUnUx
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Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to re Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to reject the “safe work zone” ordinance that aims to further criminalize unhoused people and their advocates during sweeps.
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