ah the old “Have A Pleasant Time At A Gathering” to “Stand In The Shower Cringing At Every Recollection Of Your Attempts To Interact Socially” pipeline
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❗️TN & MO have made being homeless & sleeping outside a FELONY. Cities in MO are prohibited from using fed $ to build permanent housing for unsheltered people - $ must be used to build temporary camps. Similar laws being considered elsewhere. This is madness.
1/9 The first race-based “parental rights” panic occurred between 1872 & 1875. It came about as a result of the debate on how to educate white & black kids in public schools. I know you’re probably shocked. It had to do with a bill titled The Civil Rights Act of 1875.
There's a phenomenon I actually see extremely commonly when literature is used to teach history to middle school and high school students. Let's call it "pajamafication."
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When the basic human need of housing is treated as optional charity rather that a human right, this is what we have gotten for the past 40 years. And yet, individuals are still blamed for their homelessness rather than a broken system. #HousingIsAHumanRight
The Build Back Better framework would make a HISTORIC investment into affordable housing.
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There are no “savings” to be found by cuts to targeted housing investments. Allowing homelessness to persist costs children, families, communities and the country far more than it does to get and keep people housed.