#houselessness

[slowdancinginthedarcc]

Please help a Black trans woman pay rent and stay afloat!!

I had an unexpected medical emergency a few months ago that really decimated my savings. My partner and I both work full time but it's looking like we still won't have enough to afford rent this month. All of this stress is doing real damage to my mental and physical help and I literally can not afford to endanger that any further. If you can spare anything at all, here is a link to my Cashapp . If you want to help but can't afford to monetarily, even a reblog would be so appreciated!!

#mutual aid #black trans woman #plz help #houselessness #personal

[chronicallycouchbound]

Let People On Food Stamps Eat Hot Meals

Particularly on cold, rainy days (like today), while unhoused, sometimes all I want is a hot meal but it’s so difficult (if not impossible) to cook outside in the rain.

On top of this, I’m physically disabled and chronically ill. Medically, I’m supposed to have assistance with making meals as part of in home care. But I can’t get in home care without a home.

I just finished making dinner for my partner and I, it took 2 hours (3 if you include clean up). My knees are burning, my back is aching in it’s core, I feel like I’m about to faint, and all my joints are screaming. But it’s the only way we could have a hot meal today and get some protein, which is vital for our health conditions.

People judge us for using what little funds we have on McDonald’s some days. Because sometimes, it’s the only hot meal we’ve had in days. And sometimes I’m physically unable to stand, move, and do all the actions needed to cook. Or I faint while cooking. Or the rain doesn’t let up. Or we don’t have access to a kitchen for the day. Or the fire danger outside is too high. The list goes on.

Without my own kitchen to use, I don’t get to sit down while I cook (right now, everything is wet from the rain), I can’t meal prep, I can’t stock up on freezer meals, I can’t use an oven or a microwave to reheat leftovers, I can’t just reach across the kitchen for a fridge item (we have a small amount of fridge space friends let us use), everything about cooking is exponentially harder.

And even if I had 24/7 access to an accessible, full kitchen, it’s not even physically safe to cook my own meals. Even then, having a pre-made, hot, ready-to-eat meal could keep me safe and give me independance.

And all the safety needs for hot meals aside, emotionally, hot meals are also life saving and comfort. Meals are a part of community, culture, love and art.

So many gatherings we have as communities center around food. Most people in the United States would think of ones that often hold great value to Western culture. Mother’s Day breakfast. Spaghetti fundraisers. Wedding cakes. Birthday dinners. Bake sales. Carnival treats. BBQs on weekends. Holiday roasts. Lunches with friends. Casseroles brought to grieving neighbors.

Our world revolves around food.

I firmly believe that no poor person could ever “take advantage” of a system designed to feed us by using food stamps on hot food. This restrictive rule serves no purpose but to punish the most vulnerable of poor people— unhoused, disabled, and those of us living in unsafe conditions.

It also serves to restrict our access to joy and comfort. The joy can sometimes come from the food itself, but also the joy from having shared experiences solidified by the sounds of laughter and forks clinking on plates. The comfort can sometimes also be from the food itself, but also the experience of being loved and cared for while your close friend brings you pizza from your favorite restaurant because you lost your drive to eat three weeks ago and they worry about you. They know you. Those slices of pizza bring color back into your world.

Poor people deserve to be able to have the comfort, joy, and care that goes into a hot meal. We deserve the autonomy to choose foods that are best for us ourselves. We deserve to be able to eat in ways that are accessible to us.

Above all, we deserve access to hot meals.

Originally posted to my blog on 6.3.22

#disability #chronically couchbound #disabled #cripple punk #cripplepunk #disabled pride #disability pride #unhoused #homelessness #poverty #homeless #housing crisis #houselessness #houseless #ebt #ebt food stamps #foodstamps #food stamps #food stamps ebt #poor #food pantries #food banks #food bank #homeless youth #disabled homeless #food sovereignty #poor rights #unhoused rights #homeless rights #chronic homelessness

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The City of Edmonton spent nearly $1.7 million to clean up homeless encampments last year — nearly 65-per cent more than in 2022, according to data provided by the city. City crews and the Edmonton Police Service also removed hundreds of more encampments in 2023 than the previous year, data shows. "It's outrageous that we spend that much money attacking poor people," said Jim Gurnett, a spokesperson with the Edmonton Coalition on Housing and Homelessness.  Cleaning up encampments involves parks and roads services staff and equipment such as waste services vehicles. Staffing and equipment vary based on size and location of the encampment, a city spokesperson told CBC News in an email.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #houselessness #homelessness #police #policing #acab #poverty #alberta

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill that is aimed at fighting homelessness.

Called “Home IL,” it will bring state agencies, nonprofit organizations and other advocates together. The bill focuses on an equity-based approach, which includes the voices and contributions of those who have experience homelessness.

It codifies the collaboration to move Illinois to “functional zero” homelessness by bolstering the safety net, targeting high-risk populations, expanding affordable housing, securing financial stability for unhoused individuals and closing the mortality gap.

“Every person deserves access to safe shelter and the dignity that comes with housing,” Pritzker said. “This is a first-of-its-kind multi-agency cooperative effort — bringing together state agencies, nonprofit organizations, advocates, and people with lived experience to prevent and end homelessness. I’m grateful for their dedication and believe that together, we can prevent and end homelessness once and for all.”

Rockford has already taken strides in this aspect. In 2017, it became the first community to reach “functional zero” levels among veterans and the chronically homeless.

Illinois’ Interagency Task Force and Community Advisory Council works across 17 state departments and agencies, as well as over 100 processes, programs and policies, to develop a comprehensive plan to combat homelessness.

The goal of the plan is to prevent shelter entry or ensure that shelter stays are limited and lead to quick transitions into stable living situations.

Pritzker has also committed about $360 million for the initiative in his FY24 budget. These investments include:

• $118 million to support unhoused populations seeking shelter and services, including $40.7 million in the Emergency and Transitional Housing Program.

• $50 million in Rapid ReHousing services for 2,000 households, including short-term rental assistance and targeted support for up to two years.

• $40 million in Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) Capital funds to develop 90+ new PSH units providing long term rental assistance and case management.

• $37 million in Emergency Shelter capital funds to create more than 460 non-congregate shelter units.

• $35 million for supportive housing services, homeless youth services, street outreach, medical respite, re-entry services, access to counsel, and other shelter diversion supports.

• $21.8 million to provide homelessness prevention services to approximately 6,000 more families.

• $30 million for court-based rental assistance.

• $15 million to fund Home Illinois Innovations Pilots.

• $12.5 million to create 500 new scattered site PSH units.

“People experiencing the trauma of housing instability are our neighbors and community members who deserve to be treated with humanity and dignity. With this cooperative effort, Illinois is ensuring our state agencies can continue to collaborate, and that stakeholders are at the table with us, to support our most vulnerable in living healthy, well, and with dignity.” Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton said. “Our state is making it clear that we will continue to work together so we can all move forward, and we will focus on holistic strategies that bring us closer to ending homelessness in our state.”

#us politics #news #my state line #Illinois #gov. j.b. pritzker #2023 #homeless #homelessness #house the homeless #houselessness #Home IL #end homelessness #expand affordable housing #mortality gap #Illinois’ Interagency Task Force and Community Advisory Council #Emergency and Transitional Housing Program #Permanent Supportive Housing #Emergency Shelter #supportive housing services #homeless youth services #street outreach #medical respite #access to counsel #homelessness prevention services #court-based rental assistance #Home Illinois Innovations Pilots #Juliana Stratton #progressivism #progressives #Democrats

[resistancecommittee]

🚨🚨 ** URGENT ** 🚨🚨

so I’ve gotten sick, making it even more difficult to come up with the $60 almost $70 a day (or $250 for a full week) we need to be able to keep our room at the cheapest motel in our area, let alone for us to afford anything else given our food stamps have run out until the 8th of september. given our physical conditions and the weather, if we were to be without shelter and on the street we would end up seriously ill and/or dead fairly quickly, and thats saying nothing of our mental states as is.

we have been through so much just the past 2-3 months, let alone the last year, and for anyone not familiar with our situation there are previous posts detailing much of it on my blog. that being said, if anyone can afford to help at all we sincerely appreciate any little bit of support and we want to thank everyone that’s helped us even the slightest amount throughout this. solidarity forever ❤️🖤

my wife&i’s links :

p4yp4l: @ iwannadaisuki + @ poppybun

ca$h4pp: $goldenratio1123 + $melancholicore

v3nmo: @ iwannadaisuki + @ sleepyguts

#mutual aid #direct action #financial aid #solidarity #donations #signal boost #signal b00st #aid #urgent #d0nations #mutual aid request #mutual aid support #financial support #solidarity forever #b00st #houselessness #homelessness #poverty #class warfare #class war #working class #jewish #disabled #mental illness #mental health support

[charliejaneanders]

My latest newsletter is about the attempts to evict Bluestockings, and the new laws that require maximum cruelty towards unhoused people. And I talk about why we want to judge unhoused people for their behavior, and how it's part of our American disease.

#homelessness #unhoused #houselessness #cities #politics #cruelty #capitalism #calvinism #religion #protestant work ethic

[anarchywoofwoof]

do you see the microscopic text underneath this image? it's actually kind of relevant. let's zoom in and i'll make my point.

when you have a 12% success rate at putting people in permanent housing, how can you justify the implementation of these types of laws against homeless people simply trying to exist?

it is a known fact that Housing First permanent supportive housing models result in long-term housing stability, improved physical and behavioral health outcomes, and reduced use of crisis services such as emergency departments, hospitals, and jails.

furthermore, The Lancet has done a study on the effectiveness of permanent supportive housing and concluded that permanent supportive housing interventions - particularly housing subsidies combined with case management - are an effective methodology at addressing homelessness.

it is not enough to throw unhoused people in temporary housing with no plan for how they will be there the next month, or the month after that. observations of programs already carried out by various states like California have been proven to be lackluster in their ability to provide long-term support to the unhoused.

and yet now the Supreme Court will get to decide whether states can unilaterally clear encampments while many states have no other meaningful plans to address the people being displaced.

Elected officials urged the justices to take up the case because they say the rulings complicate their efforts to clear tent encampments, which have long existed in West Coast cities, but have more recently become more common across the U.S. The federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by a lack of affordable housing, a pandemic that economically wrecked households, and a lack of access to mental health and addiction treatment. “The Supreme Court can now correct course and end the costly delays from lawsuits that have plagued our efforts to clear encampments and deliver services to those in need,” Newsom said in a statement.

thank goodness that liberals like Gavin Newsom are out there fighting the good fight.

#united states #houselessness #us news

[vague-humanoid]

#murder tw #dehumanization #houselessness

[kitty-does-stuff]

Homeless family, winter coming and our car is breaking down.

Okay hello, you can look up kitty says stuff tag for a detailed version of my story but in short my family had to evacuate our home for our safety. That was late last year.

Right now we are dealing with a truck with a broken window and a flat tire, we are at a campsite right now but it is closing very soon.

We have bills for storage and winterizing our small living spaces (truck & no water or power camper). We also have very little food.

These are just our immediate needs, long-term we are also dealing with health issues and are trying to get into a place.

If you would like to help you can dm for paypal or donate at my kofi

https://ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

#homelessness #homeless #donation #mutual funds #mutual aid #houselessness #houseless #kitty says stuff

[entitledrichpeople]

#housing #shelter #homelessness #rent #houselessness

[chronicallycouchbound]

Disabled joy looks like me zooming down the streets in my powerchair at full speed, fall leaves crunching under my wheels.

18 year old me, sobbing as I was forced to crawl up the ice-coated steps of the local youth homeless shelter, could have never dreamed of this.

#chronically couchbound #disability #disabled #cripplepunk #cripple punk #disabled pride #disability pride #disabled joy #homeless #unhoused #chronic homelessness #houseless #houselessness #homelessness #hobocrip #hobopunk #disabled and homeless #healing #powerchair #powerchairs #protect homeless youth #trans homeless youth #homeless youth #homelessness survivor #homelessness is trauma #inaccessibility #disability joy #disability justice #housing justice #healing inner child

[dognonsense]

the last video of courtney talking about harm reduction i shared a while back resonated with people. So heres an update on her! We got great news for courtney as she has her own room after being homeless for 2-3 years now. Her venmo is court-dourt if you want to support her.

#punk #tiktok #homelessness #houselessness #harm reduction #harm redux #recovery #healing journey

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A police officer who claims he was assaulted by an Indigenous man during an encampment protest in Edmonton on Tuesday was actually the aggressor, according to several people who were there. Teyen Bohnsack, a volunteer with the Bear Claw, was arrested near the camp at Rowland Road and 95 Street on Tuesday in an altercation captured in several videos. Edmonton Police Service said Wednesday that charges, including assaulting a police officer, were pending against Bohnsack. But Bohnsack, his wife Kiya Tailleur, and two independent witnesses claim it was Const. Michael Zacharuk who assaulted the couple.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #alberta #racism #police violence #police brutality #acab #film the police #homelessness #houselessness

[apas-95]

Fascists are not all simply insane. The reason liberals will respond to this idea with accusations of fascist sympathy is because they themselves would sympathise with fascists if they were convinced of it.

In the liberal conception, fascism has to be some illogical aberration from liberal capitalism. Liberals need to be able to point to an atrocity and say 'that wasn't capitalism, it was fascism.' They will exclusively define and categorise fascism by the ways it deviates from liberalism, and refuse to acknowledge it for what it is - just another stage of capitalism. Fascism is, though, the inevitable development of capitalism.

Fascist actions are perfectly reasonable within the logic of capitalism. The genocide committed by the Nazi fascists was, for the capitalists, a completely logical and profitable course of action, done to maintain capitalism. An economic measure, not blind hatred. One response to these facts is to reject capitalism, to reject capitalist logic and side with the workers against these atrocities. For those who refuse to reject the logic of capitalism, the only possibilities are self-delusion or the acceptance of fascism. Those who self-delude about these prospects remain liberals. Any attempt to educate them on the connection between capitalism and fascism is seen as an attempt at recruitment, because, to them, 'fascism is profitable, fascism is all that prevents communist revolution' does essentially mean 'fascism is correct'.

This doesn't only apply to fascism - even the excesses of liberal capitalism get siloed away like this. Take a moment to think about any 'it's actually more expensive to arrest homeless people than give them houses⁽¹⁾' argument, and what's really going unsaid.

¹ ⁻ ᵀʰᶦˢ ᶦˢ ᵃˡˢᵒ ⁿᵒᵗ ᵗʳᵘᵉ ⁻ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜʳᶦᵐᶦⁿᵃˡᶦˢᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ᵒᶠ ᵘⁿᵉᵐᵖˡᵒʸᵐᵉⁿᵗ ᵃⁿᵈ ʰᵒᵐᵉˡᵉˢˢⁿᵉˢˢ ᶜʳᵉᵃᵗᵉˢ ᵃ 'ʳᵉˢᵉʳᵛᵉ ᵃʳᵐʸ ᵒᶠ ˡᵃᵇᵒᵘʳ' ʷʰᶦᶜʰ ᵉⁿˢᵘʳᵉˢ ᵗʰᵃᵗ ʷᵒʳᵏᵉʳˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᵘⁿᵃᵇˡᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵃʳᵍᵃᶦⁿ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᵉᶦʳ ʳᶦᵍʰᵗˢ ᵈᵘᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵇᵒᵗʰ ᵗʰᵉ ᵗʰʳᵉᵃᵗ ᵒᶠ ʰᵒᵐᵉˡᵉˢˢⁿᵉˢˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵉᵃˢᵉ ʷᶦᵗʰ ʷʰᶦᶜʰ ᵗʰᵉʸ ᶜᵃⁿ ᵇᵉ ᶠᶦʳᵉᵈ ᵃⁿᵈ ʳᵉᵖˡᵃᶜᵉᵈ ᵇʸ ᵃⁿʸ ⁿᵘᵐᵇᵉʳ ᵒᶠ ᵈᵉˢᵖᵉʳᵃᵗᵉ ᵖᵉᵒᵖˡᵉ

#fascism #homelessness #houselessness #theory

[fascistsarefreefood]

Does anyone have any ideas for mutual aid projects Im setting up a mutual aid point in my community where people can leave and take stuff and I want to put some stuff out but I don't have a lot of money for it so I'm trying to DIY stuff like reusable pads and I've got homegrown stuff but I'll need to make containers for them other than that I could do with more ideas of places where I could get stuff or DIY stuff

#anarchy #solarpunk #anarchopunk #punk #diy #mutual aid #houselessness

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Gloria Verdieu

The solution to homelessness is complicated, difficult to resolve, and impossible to end in a capitalist system of government. The truth is reducing homelessness just isn’t profitable.

Socialism is the solution to ending homelessness, and here are some reasons why.

#homelessness #houselessness #poverty #capitalism #racism #repression #housing #housing crisis #landlords #socialism #Gloria Verdieu #Struggle La Lucha