#PoorNotGuilty advocates on decriminalisation of homelessness and rights to adequate housing, as part of global Campaign to Decriminalise Poverty and Status.
Studies show that providing housing and services costs governments 2-3 times less than cycling homeless persons through the criminal justice system.
#IAskForHelpBecause: Housing is a proven solution to homelessness. @homeless_law@USICHgov#PoorNotGuilty
Best graphic to show why we don't need #housing support for the middle class (code for "white families), but need deep income targeting in the #Reconciliation bill. It's right economically, but also from an equity perspective. Thx @NLIHC@SarahSaadian! https://t.co/BDMSjY2y8R
@Tamar_Ezer@UMLawHRC Hear from many of our #PoorNotGuilty partners in "Why It’s Time to Repeal Petty Offense Laws" video which has important message on the history of and what distinguishes #PettyOffenses, the criminalization of which disproportionately affecting those who are viewed as 'other'.
Proud our Human Rights Clinic could contribute to the successful challenge to vagrancy laws criminalizing poverty and marginalization before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: https://t.co/Mf6JDTr1hS #PoorNotGuilty, @UMLawHRC, @MiamiLawSchool
Congratulations to Lisa Foster on the publication of “The Price of Justice: Fines, Fees and the Criminalization of Poverty in the United States”: https://t.co/1kzOefq1XG #PoorNotGuilty@UMLawHRC@OSFJustice
Please find additional publications from the Petty Offenses Symposium https://t.co/D8PCc6wVsY at https://t.co/bWsCndjRAg #PoorNotGuilty@UMLawHRC@OSFJustice
Congratulations to @UMLawHRC Fellow, David Stuzin, for publication of "The Promotion of the General Welfare: Using the Spending Clause
to End the Criminalization of Homelessness in America": https://t.co/JlpS93GRUH #PoorNotGuilty
See this great video on "Why It's Time to Repeal Petty Offense Laws" from our amazing global participants at the Petty Offenses Symposium: https://t.co/l9joWaz9gS
@UMLawHRC#PoorNotGuilty#UMPettyCrimes