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radicalgraff · 11 months

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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

Anatole France quote sticker seen on an anti-homeless sign in Victoria, British Columbia

#sticker bombing #stickers #class #class war #house the homeless #anarchism

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 24 days

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HOW CHRISTIANITY SUPPORTS MULTIRACIAL, MULTICULTURAL DEMOCRACY

'The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick' — This pastor perfectly explained how the values expressed in Christianity can support a multiracial, multicultural democracy instead of right-wing extremism (via jamestalarico on TikTok)

#christianity #religion #democracy

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 9 months

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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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the-mercy-workers · 5 months

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To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

#catholicism #works of mercy #christianity #corporal works of mercy #house the homeless #quote #vincent van gogh #vincent van gogh quote

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rjalker · 11 months

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[ID: A photo with a black border of a hand-painted cardboard sign that reads, "It costs less money to house the homeless than it does to persecute them!"

The "money" is represented by two dollar symbols, and "less money" is painted green, with yellow lines for emphasis radiating out from the dollar symbols.

The words "house the homeless" are in block letters that are painted white on the inside.

The word "persecute" is painted in red, and underlined for emphasis.

#solidarity or drown #house the homeless #feed the hungry #classism #described images #wrath month

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mbrainspaz · 1 year

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oops went off on my conservative gran again last night because I called to complain about the housing market because I'll never be able to afford a place to live again unless my salary magically doubles and nobody is paying that much. Naturally she decided to bring up my rich uncles the Dallas slumlords. me: I just wish I could buy property because I hate renting. I'm so sick of funneling all my money into the pockets of the greedy rich landlords. I wish we could stop them from buying up all the property so that people like me could afford to live.

gran: What about all the people who can't afford to buy property?

me: if there weren't all these landlords monopolizing housing, it would be more affordable.

gran: But that's what your uncles do. They buy up apartments and get companies to run them.

me: I know. that's why I don't get along with them so good. I really don't like that they're slumlords.

gran: UPH! Ah! Yuh—you can't say that! And you love your uncles!

me: Actually I haven't gotten along with uncle 2 very well at all since 2020 when we were at their house for christmas and he had the audacity to complain to me —who was literally homeless at the time— that he wasn't allowed to kick out all the tenants who were failing to pay rent during the pandemic. While he was drinking a $400 glass of whisky at his lake house where he keeps part of his luxury car collection.

gran: he didn't say that.

[#gaslightgatekeepgirlboss]

me: he did. I didn't say anything at the time because I didn't want to start a fight at christmas but I'll never forget it.

[I also made a post about it about 5 minutes after it happened because that's what you do when you've spent your whole life being gaslit by your family.]

I actually found out they were slumlords back in 2017, another time I was struggling with housing. I was talking about my struggles and Uncle 1 jokingly offered to let me rent a place in Dallas for a discount. He jokes like that all the time. One time he offered to buy me a car when mine was breaking down. Haha so funny. But this time I was so desperate I didn't realize he was joking. When I earnestly asked him if I could do that he immediately backtracked and said "you wouldn't want to rent the places we own." "I would though," I said. "I just want a place to live." "No," he said, "the buildings we own are run down and in bad parts of town." Like... buddy. My guy. Mine uncle. I'd just spent the last year renting a house where my next door neighbor kept 6 broken fridges in her front yard as lawn ornaments, my backyard neighbors beat their dogs, my front yard was a parking lot, and the abandoned house at the end of the street had creepy dolls in the windows. The absolute inability of the rich to comprehend or even acknowledge the struggles of the poor eternally flabbergasts me. And crazily enough I'd just had the exact same conversation with a rich christian guy from my church in Oklahoma City who owned slums there. Funny how I know so many people who own so much housing and yet they always look at me, a hard-working young pretty white girl (at the time) who should never have to face hardship according their f*cked up white supremacist prosperity gospel worldviews, and immediately confess that they're slumlords. It's almost like this is a systemic problem or something.

#capitalist hellscape #all landlords are bastards #corporate american hellscape #rant #alab #poverty #homelessness #housing crisis #tax the wealthy #house the homeless #prosperity gospel #american evangelicals #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #dialogue from memory #save me from my family

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ministerpeacefulpoetwordwitch · 2 years

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Explaining my last poem and more.

#satan #satan is the ruler of the earth #ego #collective ego #be like the joneses #when you got yourself #last war #weapons #military industrial complex #no more war #the last war #feed the hungry #house the homeless

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crionic-soc · 2 years

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There's an uncomfortable kinship we share with volcanoes: both able to demolish ecosystems, change atmospheric composition, inspire great art, both able to create cities without people. The difference between the annihilation of a volcano and the annihilation we've slowly been building to since… [shows disaster clips] …is that we can see ours coming. And while this means that it is inexcusable that we've built our own Vesuvius, it also means that we have the power to prevent a situation where the shells of bodies litter the streets for future historians to find. Just as in 17776 we do have the power to get everyone out, rehouse the entire population. This is not a fantastical goal, this is achievable; it doesn't even require us to magically stop aging first. Humans matter more than concrete, full stop.

-Jacob Geller, Cities Without People

#disaster #collapse #volcano #volcanoes #housing #housing is a human right #homelessness #house the homeless #climate change #climate crisis #climate collapse #ecological collapse #ecological crisis #humans not houses #urban design #architecture #urban planning

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ofdinosanddais1 · 12 days

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Me: Homeless people should be housed

Some people saying this as a gotcha: so you should house them

Me: *actually has hosued homeless people before, been an advocate for homeless people since they were 11, held multiple fundraisers at school and in my community to clothe and provide food for unhoused people, arranged help to get people temporary shelter during the winter, protested against laws criminalizing homelessness, gone to city council meetings to speak out against hostile architecture, and became an advocate for prison reform/abolition BECAUSE of my work with homeless people*

Me: So about that :)

#house the homeless #house the unhoused #fuck capitalism #fuck people on the internet who try to be a smart ass with that shit

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rotteneldritchhorror · 3 months

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drmonkeysetroscans · 7 months

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Building.

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radicalgraff · 2 years

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"Without shelter people die"

Seen on an anti-homeless barrier in Seattle

#seattle graffiti #graffiti #graff #house the homeless

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 1 year

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 10 months

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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.

#us politics #news #mediaite #jesse watters #fox news #fox news network #The Five #San Francisco #California #homelessness #house the homeless #end homelessness #2023 #jeanine pirro #gov. gavin newsom #tweet

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the-mercy-workers · 5 months

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You’ve got to put a roof over someone’s head and then you’ve got to give them the ability to provide so they can keep it over their head. You can’t just give the man a home and go, good luck. Because next month there’s a lighting bill coming.

Jon Bon Jovi

#catholicism #christianity #works of mercy #corporal works of mercy #quote #jon bon jovi #jon bon jovi quote #house the homeless

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rjalker · 11 months

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[ID: Four photographs, each overlaid with white text with a black border.

The first photo is an open book lying in a pile of dried leaves, partially buried, with other books visible behind it.

The text reads, "They're throwing out the homeless"

The second is a photo taken in a forest between two palm trees, focused on an oak tree that had fallen to the ground, part of its trunk dead and rotting, with one of the branches forming a new trunk up into the sky, covered in moss at its base.

The text reads, "to kill the forest"

The next image is a photo of a suburban cul de sac from above.

The text reads, "To build houses"

The last photo is of a black and yellow sign at the edge of the woods, reading, "City property - no littering, no camping, tents and gear will be removed without notice!".

The text reads, "no one can afford".

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They're throwing out the homeless so they can clear out the forest so they can build houses no one can afford.

Capitalism will never be satisfied.

#kill the rich #eat the rich #deforestation #classism #poverty #house the homeless #feed the hungry #and kill the rich #Rjalker takes pictures #except for the bird's eye view #that one's from Pexels

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