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California Right To Rest

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History

The California Statewide Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign is one part of 3 statewide campaigns in California, Colorado and Oregon. The Homeless Bill of Rights is a grassroots organizing campaign fighting to end the criminalization of poor and homeless people’s existence. The campaign strives to ensure that all people have the basic right to live where they choose without fear of harassment and criminalization at the hands of the police. This campaign is a way of working collectively with groups possessing different talents to address the many injustices that we face in our communities. We are building the power to create a social justice movement that will create a society where we can all thrive.

2018 Legislation

  • Right To Rest Act Legislation

 Campaign Materials

  • California Street Outreach Fact Sheet
  • National Street Outreach Fact Sheet
  • Historical Criminalization Fact Sheet 
  • California’s New Vagrancy Laws The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State Fact Sheet
  • Count of Anti-Homeless Laws by California City (All 82 Cities)
  • Count of Anti-Homeless Laws Prohibiting Sleeping in Vehicles by California City (All 82 Cities)

Research

Updated and expanded – June 2016 California’s New Vagrancy Laws The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State

June 2016, the Policy Advocacy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley released an update on previous research report entitled “California’s New Vagrancy Laws: The Growing Enactment and Enforcement of Anti-Homeless Laws in the Golden State.” The study documents the increasing criminalization of homeless people in California through local laws mimicking shameful vagrancy laws of past eras that targeted people of color, migrants, and people with disabilities. Clinic students from the law school and the school of public policy analyzed municipal codes in 58 California cities, where three-quarters of California’s homeless people reside. They also gathered public records and interviewed key stakeholders in a sample of cities to study enforcement practices across the state.

Punishing the Poorest – How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco

“I have to hide like a dog at night.”
—Oscar, homeless in San Francisco
This report details the effects of criminalization on the homeless residents of San Francisco. Since 1981, San Francisco has passed more local measures to criminalize sleeping, sitting, or panhandling in public spaces than any other city in the state of California. During this same period, the United States has experienced the greatest expansion members of this society. This report documents and analyzes the impacts of the rising tide of anti-homeless laws in our era of mass incarceration on those experiencing homelessness in San Francisco.

California WRAP Members 

  • Coalition On Homelessness San Francisco  
  • Los Angeles Community Action Network 
  • Sacramento Homeless Organizing Committee 
  • St. Mary’s Center Oakland

Endorsers

  • Organizational Endorsement Form pdf 

Get Involved with the Campaign

The best way to get involved with the California Statewide Homeless Bill of Rights Campaign is to get in touch with one of the WRAP core members to find out about working on the local level to push for change on the state level.

Some other ways to get involved:

  • Invite California organizers to come to your community and hold a forum to talk about criminalization and the Homeless Bill of Rights campaign.
  • Participate in WRAP’s street outreach to people on the streets in your neighborhood to hear their experiences and build a collective voice around criminalization.
  • Provide connections with universities who want to do research on criminalization or others who want to support moving anti-criminalization legislation.

If you have questions about the campaign you can write to us or call us:

wrap@wraphome.org
(415) 621-2533

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  • California Homeless Bill of Rights 

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HOMELESS AWARENESS NIGHT at Dodger Stadium | Tuesd HOMELESS AWARENESS NIGHT at Dodger Stadium | Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 7pm 

Proceeds go to the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP)

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 7pm

FIVE ways to help support the movement to make housing a human right!

Purchase a ticket – $30: $11 of each ticket sale goes to WRAP.
Sponsor a Community Member – $30: Purchase a ticket so that an unhoused community member can attend the game; for $45 they will receive a T-shirt as well.
Purchase a ticket AND a WRAP T-shirt – $45: Receive your shirt at the game and wear it in solidarity!
Purchase a ticket AND a WRAP poster – $40: Receive your poster at the game.
Donate Directly to WRAP: Learn about and support the amazing work of homeless-led and accountable organizations at www.wraphome.org
To purchase tickets, send money by Venmo – @Dodgers42 – with a message about which option you choose from above.

Housing is a Human Right!

Questions? Email wrap@wraphome.org.

Learn more about WRAP’s work at www.wraphome.org

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Conceal, Criminalize, Capitalize WRAP Webinar http Conceal, Criminalize, Capitalize WRAP Webinar https://conta.cc/3LMtrBs

How government sanctioned tent cities promote the criminalization of homelessness under the guise of service.
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In this webinar, we will discuss the implications In this webinar, we will discuss the implications of these encampments as a “service,” namely how they will and are being used to sweep and warehouse unhoused people on the streets, and how they are part of a larger trend whereby local governments fabricate and formalize “service resistance” in order to continue the criminalization of homelessness under Martin v. Boise. 
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Sweeps and Bans don’t “Solve Homelessness,” Sweeps and Bans don’t “Solve Homelessness,” Housing Does! – RV & people bans, Echo Park Lake, and more
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Onsite at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
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“For the fourth consecutive year, homelessness i “For the fourth consecutive year, homelessness increased nationwide” The 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress 
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