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politijohn · 2 months
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radicalurbanista · 2 years
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August 9, 2022. Los Angeles
LA City Council deploys riot police at a public meeting to criminalize sitting and sleeping near a school and to fund police to enforce the measure.
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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.”
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callese · 1 year
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cssoregon · 6 months
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What does "involuntarily homeless" mean, and why does it matter?
This is a very active topic in our courts right now. We encourage you to keep an open mind, stay informed, and support lawmakers who work to decriminalize and prevent homelessness.
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wronggalaxy · 6 months
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I'm as anti landlord as anybody, probably more than a lot of people after having me, my parents, and five of my siblings ages 3-10 forced to the streets by our old one when I was 5 because he couldn't up the price until we were gone, but y'all need to realize not every landlord is a millionaire renting out two dozen houses just because they want to. Some of them are just normal people who have no choice but to rent out their dead parents old house so their children don't starve to death. And until you recognize that, we can never end poverty or give everyone a house.
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awesomecooperlove · 4 months
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describe-things · 6 months
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OP deactivated, so here's a new post that's accessible from the start.
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[ID: A picture of the dad from the cartoon Jimmy Neutron. Over him is text reading: "Hey Jim Jam, did you know there are nearly 1.5 million vacant homes in the United States and 567,715 homeless people? We could literally house every single homeless person but we don’t do it because we won’t make a profit. Ain’t that quackin crazy!". End ID.]
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mbrainspaz · 11 months
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um so my lease ends in 8 days and I just checked the contract and it says I'll owe them $50 a day for every day I stay beyond the lease. The boss lord has been worryingly recalcitrant about getting a new one done. She hasn't said directly and plainly that I even will get a second lease, much less that it will be a $0 lease like the first one, just that she's been too busy to worry about that yet. Now I get to decide whether I take the paperwork seriously and start the process of moving out and finding a new place to shelter tomorrow or just trust that this company won't f*ck me over like that even though they totally could and said in a legal agreement that they would. And like they did do last year when they punished and shamed me for moving in a few days early because I had nowhere else to go. fun fun fun! Still, at least $50 a day is cheaper than any local Airbnb or hotel.
It would only take me a few days to sell off most of my furniture and excess stuff. I'd have to give my horse away if I couldn't find a way to move him but that's always been a possibility I've just had to live with. Then maybe it'd be time to migrate back North to where more friends live. I've got friends who've offered to take me in in half a dozen other states. I could even go West. As horrible and traumatic as being kicked out again would be, it's familiar. I never let myself feel at home here, not like I made the mistake of doing at the last place. Even on my maps app it's only labelled as 'work.' It's awful but it's also really freeing to realize that these rich people could kick me to the curb and I'd just get back up, grab what I could, and keep going. I've done it plenty of times before. In a way this feeling of uncertainty, risk, possibility, and upheaval is home to me.
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nariwalsh · 11 months
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Alrighty friendos, I’ve started a fund to try and end my couch-surfing because I’ve failed at finding safe, stable housing for years and I’m t-i-r-e-d of bouncing around. If I can’t find a place with four walls in the mess that is Vancouver, I will be outfitting a van to live my best van life. Reblogs and literally anything helps!
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politijohn · 6 months
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housethehouseless · 1 year
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Stakeholders: Houselessness in Roseburg
When looking deeper into the issue of houselessness in Roseburg, it is clear that many stakeholders are present in this issue.
The most drastically impacted and of the highest importance would be those that are currently houseless in Roseburg and also those that were formerly houseless. The houseless population includes those that have lost their homes, lost their jobs, left domestically violent homes, suffered from mental health issues, and/or struggled with substance abuse. These stakeholders need assistance and are at the root of this issue, as they require resources to survive.
Local government staff and officials are also notable stakeholders of this issue. Mayor Larry Rich of Roseburg, Oregon is also on the Homeless Commission and leads their monthly meetings.
The Homeless Commission is important to mention as well. The organized meetings for this commission focus on researching and gathering information on the current state of homelessness in Roseburg and works to recommend solutions or ideas to the City Council. This organization also oversees relationships with agencies pertaining to the houseless and listens to the general public's concerns (Homeless Commission).
Many residents, businesses, and visitors in Roseburg have developed their own views and opinions on the issue of houselessness. The general public is also a stakeholder that has a general interest and concern for this issue. Some residents of Roseburg have developed a fear of those that are houseless, as many unhoused people have camped along the river, which is considered to be a residential backyard of many. Businesses have grown tiresome of vandalism and loitering outside of their businesses that seems to scare off potential customers (Roseburg Homeless Commission Agenda).
Law enforcement in Roseburg interacts with the houseless on a daily basis. Officers of the law must address reported crimes, approach suspicious persons, and ask illegally camped, houseless people to move their belongings. It is more than typical for residents to report houseless people to the police. A notable individual of the Roseburg Police Department is Police Captain Jeremy Sanders. Captain Sanders is a participant at the Homeless Commission meetings. 
Many behaviors of the houseless are criminalized, such as camping, loitering, sleeping, and urinating in public (Siegel). Also, substance abuse is a significant issue on the streets of Roseburg. Many of the houseless individuals participating in these behaviors end up in the local jail. The local jail, Douglas County Sheriff's Office Jail, would also be considered a stakeholder as well.
Roseburg's local hospital, Mercy Medical Center, is where sick or injured houseless individuals are taken. A significant concern of the hospital and the jail is where to drop off incapacitated individuals (Carroll, 2022). 
Umpqua Heart is a nonprofit organization that collaborates with community leaders to provide services to houseless individuals. Umpqua Heart has also developed living facilities for the houseless and provided access to resources to the individuals residing there (Umpqua Heart).
The United Community Action Network (UCAN) is another nonprofit organization that assists the homeless by providing them with food, housing, and shelter. UCAN prioritizes providing resources, equipment of skills, and opportunities for the houseless (UCAN).
References
Carroll, S. (2022, March 27). Homeless falling through the cracks is "a big mess". nrtoday.com. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://www.nrtoday.com/news/government/homeless-falling-through-the-cracks-is-a-big-mess/article_bce2cf08-02ba-5f52-ba3d-9b9502fe40d6.html 
Homeless Commission. City of Roseburg. (n.d.). Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://www.cityofroseburg.org/your-government/commissions/homeless-commission 
Our accomplishments. United Community Action Network. (2022, April 22). Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://www.ucancap.org/our-accomplishments/ 
Rich, L. (n.d.). ROSEBURG HOMELESS COMMISSION AGENDA. Roseburg. 
Siegel, D. H. (n.d.). The Criminalization of Homelessness. Social Work Today. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/exc_0518.shtml 
Umpqua Heart. (n.d.). Our approach to housing equality. Umpqua Heart. Retrieved October 24, 2022, from https://umpquaheart.org/our-plan 
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Fox News’ Jesse Watters had some particularly harsh words for homeless people when discussing California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) recent comments about the issue in the state.
Newsom appeared on Monday night’s Hannity where he acknowledged the city’s homelessness problem as a “disgrace.”
On Tuesday’s episode of The Five, Watters said homeless people “have failed in life:”
“Being in a city run by Democrats is like being in a bad marriage where you pretend everything’s great — you know the couples — but it’s just so they don’t have to talk about how bad things really are because once you acknowledge there’s a problem, you have to do something about that. So Gavin’s now at maybe mid-field, but he has to understand, homelessness is not about lack of affordable housing — It’s about drug addicts that want to wander around and live in tents on the sidewalk. And so, you can’t coddle antisocial behavior, you can’t subsidize anti-social behavior — you have to stigmatize it. You can’t celebrate people with purple hair and nose rings, four kids with four different men who are dressed like trash, and make them out to be some sort of cutting-edge heroes.You have to call them what they are: These are people that’ve failed in life and they’re on their deathbed. And if we’re not honest about it, we’re never going to fix the problem.”
It took a moment for the rest of the co-hosts to figure out what to say to that, but Judge Jeanine Pirro finally weighed in.
“There’s one group in San Francisco that’s so inundated with crime, and drugs, and homelessness, they did their own GoFundMe and raised $25,000 so they could buy these 1,400-pound planters so that the homeless there couldn’t pitch a tent in their neighborhood,” she said. “Maybe we ought to do more of that… and by the way, the people in these, the homeless people — they’re the walking dead.”
Pirro said when she was a judge, she asked a homeless man what he did for a living so she could set bail.
“He said, ‘I am the walking dead.’ He was a druggie. I mean, he knew it.”
Watch the video.
Jesse Watters wants viewers to know: he really, really hates homeless people. In a segment on Friday night, the primetime Fox News host launched into a tirade against San Francisco’s homeless population. “San Francisco’s been hollowed out,” Watters said, monologuing over footage of homeless San Franciscans. “All that’s left is rich tech titans working from home and just bags of flesh mutating on the sidewalk.” Over the course of nearly ten minutes, Watters also called San Francisco’s homeless population “urine-soaked junkies” and “vagabonds and zombies.” He referred to the city as a “fentanyl caliphate” that had given its homeless population permission to “rape, rob, and steal” without consequence.
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cssoregon · 8 months
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Not having a home is a tragedy—not a crime. Let’s treat it as such.
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Did you know that, according to the UN, more than 100 million people worldwide are homeless? Be sure to check out the following 4 nonprofits and discover from them the action steps you can take to prevent and end homelessness! 
👉 Covenant House 
👉 Eviction Defense Collaborative 
👉 National Homelessness Law Center 
👉 The Shift
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