Housing Not Handcuffs

The solution to homelessness is housing and care, not handcuffs. A campaign by @homeless_law.

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

UPDATE: New bills criminalizing homelessness have been passed in multiple states.

This summer, SCOTUS will decide if throwing people in jail for being homeless violates the constitution. #JohnsonVGrantsPass

View our criminalization tracker here: https://t.co/xGF03nFx6Y

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

ACTION ALERT: Tomorrow (9/10), Congress will discuss a bill that would put people in jail or fine them $500 for sleeping outside in DC.
Contact your reps today via https://t.co/aG3PpvIdEA

In DC and across the country, we need #HousingNotHandcuffs #FreeDC

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

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NEW: Now more than ever, we must stay grounded in our vision for a better world, where all people have the housing and support needed to thrive. With that in mind, we’ve added two new tracking maps: Defeated Bills and Positive Policies. Learn more: https://t.co/Ul2fPVWshy

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

The only answer to being asked if you support forcing homeless people into gov't run detention camps is "no"

Yet that is not the answer that Trump's nominee to lead HUD gave @TinaSmithMN.

Link below to take action to stop his nomination.

[Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social @jesserbnwtz]

When we say encampment evictions are violent and dangerous, this is what we mean.

A homeless man in Georgia was killed by the government the day before MLK's birthday in front of MLK's church.

There is another way. We need housing, not handcuffs.

https://t.co/4IYsJCUHxn

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

More than 10,000 expensive, traumatizing sweeps have happened in NYC since @NYCMayor took office, and yet homelessness just keeps getting worse.

Facts are facts. Sweeps don't work. The city must abolish all policies criminalizing homelessness and invest in #HousingNotHandcuffs.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

BREAKING: We’re suing the Eric Adams admin @NYCMayor to end the City’s cruel and unlawful homeless sweeps.

The only way to reduce homelessness and increase public safety is to ensure all people are safely housed. Full statement: https://t.co/TgagfWCvKa

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

TOMORROW, 10/22: Join us for the @HNHCampaign National Organizing Call! We will discuss policy efforts in the aftermath of #JohnsonVGrantsPass, and hear from organizers fighting (and winning!) against backward anti-homeless laws.
Register here: https://t.co/JrjOE33pug

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Helen Cruz is an advocate for the unhoused community in Grants Pass, Oregon, and needs support to secure stable housing, as conditions have rapidly deteriorated following #JohnsonVGrantsPass.

Please share the gofundme and help support Helen and her work: https://t.co/Fl1thmgHIb

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

"To combat the criminalization of homelessness and poverty, our movement calls for an urgent, federal anti-criminalization agenda with racial equity and anti-discrimination mandates at the forefront of advancing the human right to housing." -
@SiyaHegde #HousingNotHandcuffs

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

How can we solve homelessness?

"This admin must redirect funds and resources from carceral responses and prioritize access to affordable, safe, inclusive housing with compassionate voluntary support services." -@SiyaHegde NHLC Attorney testifying at the White House yesterday.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Thank you to @SenatorMuth @SenatorSaval @RepIzzy for organizing today's hearing, "Serving the Homeless in the Wake of Grants Pass" where @EricTars discussed how our template legislation can help cities fight homelessness criminalization.

Full testimony: https://t.co/HqU0NsHizD

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Learn more about the Gloria Johnson Template Legislation, which we designed to help states and municipalities correct the harm done by the Supreme Court in #JohnsonVGrantsPass: https://t.co/tDviSXGFQm

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

TOMORROW: "What the Grants Pass Decision Means for People with Disabilities," a discussion with @DREDF and @BazelonCenter, featuring NHLC staff attorney @SiyaHegde

Register here: https://t.co/ndoL0O4PEp

[Siya Hegde @SiyaHegde]

Stop the Sweeps.

Care not Cops.

Dignity Not Detention.

Housing Not Handcuffs.

Housing Justice for All.

@VOCALNewYork @WINNYC_ORG @housingworks @SafetyNetUJC @LegalAidNYC @NYHomeless @homeless_law @nycpa 🫶🏼✊🏼🔥

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

"We decline to accept. On stolen land, we will not be swept. We demand Black & Indigenous #landback, reparations for poor peoples who are treated like we are trash."

- @poormagazine on #JohnsonVGrantsPass & the criminalization of homelessness

[Poor Magazine @poormagazine]

📣 New Podcast! "Grants Pass -we poor folks decline to accept" on @Spreaker #constitutional #eighth_amendment #grants_pass #homelessness #lisatinygraygarcia #poverty #supreme_court https://t.co/pXDOXx72Ew

[Siya Hegde @SiyaHegde]

Thrilled to share my latest #lawreview article, published in Vol. 21, Issue 2 of the Indiana Health Law Review:

"With Liberty and Justice for ALL: The Case for Decriminalizing Homelessness and Mental Health in America"

https://t.co/1SrTOrko6k

#abolition #law #decriminalize

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Thank you to everyone who joined us for yesterday's #JohnsonVGrantsPass Mass Organizing Call. The recording is now available to watch on YouTube:
https://t.co/iiv6HijsJs

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

TOMORROW: Join us at 1 PM ET on Monday to discuss the impacts of the recent, inhumane SCOTUS ruling and where we go from here.

Space is filling up fast, so register ASAP!

And remember, housing solves homelessness. Jails and fines make homelessness worse.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Thousands of homelessness & housing advocates have rallied around #JohnsonVGrantsPass. Despite yesterday's inhumane ruling, we must move forward and tap into the collective power we've shared.

Join us on 7/1 for a mass post-decision organizing call: https://t.co/0EK10azTMR

[Housing Not Handcuffs @HNHCampaign]

No serious person thinks throwing people in jail solves homelessness.

After the morally bankrupt SCOTUS decision, our elected officials must protect the rights that SCOTUS gutted and fund programs, like housing, that solve homelessness.

[Suzanne Bonamici @RepBonamici]

Housing, not handcuffs, will end homelessness.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

In America, centuries of intentional policies have pushed Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color into homelessness at disproportionate rates. Achieving housing justice cannot be achieved without achieving racial justice.

[National Homelessness Law Center @homeless_law]

Another day has come and gone without a decision in #JohnsonVGrantsPass.

June 28 is the last scheduled opinion day of the year, with 6-7 opinions remaining. It's possible SCOTUS will announce more days for next week.

Stay informed with @HNHCampaign: https://t.co/6SktZXJg7H