Home is a Human Right

Home is a Human Right is a media and mutual aid collective of housed and unhoused New Yorkers working together for homes and justice.

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

Tomorrow morning, 8am— help is needed to support neighbors living outside and help them avoid being brutalized by the police.

[NYC Sweep Alerts @SweepAlertNYC]

🔔All hands on deck!🔔

Forsyth & Canal, 8 am, please be prepared to support and (always) follow the wishes of the residents.

Neighbors are asking for:

1) assistance moving their belongings

2) media to document potential cop abuse

3) support in this traumatic experience

🖤

[Open Hearts Initiative @openheartsnyc]

Incredibly sad. This is the 2nd time this year that homeless NYers have been targeted in a string of attacks. Stigma kills--as our friend Carl Garrison has said, “You can’t talk about people as being vermin and being ‘disgusting animals’ without it having a repercussion.” (1/2)

[Unlock NYC @weunlocknyc]

"It was either we shut up or we speak up! So we decided to speak up. We were in the streets. If it wasn't in the streets, it was on the phone. If it wasn't on the phone, it was on social media." 📢

- @maria_walles on the history of #JulyHomelessRights #HomelessRightsMonth

[collective survival @thebl0w]

Last week I couldn’t get a safe haven bed for an elder woman sleeping on my stoop. Turns out the mayor is spending $29 million dedicated to safe haven funds on something else, most likely cops. He wants to disappear and punish homeless people, not help them.

[collective survival @thebl0w]

Today I spent an hour trying to help a woman sleeping on my stoop get a safe haven bed (aka a room she doesn’t have to share w/ 30 people). After a long process we were told nothing is available. There are no safe options for people living on the street to come inside.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Truly good article from thoughtful NY Times writer @andylocal

“They got 250,000 vacant apartments in the city, man,” Mr. Grima yelled as the police surrounded the encampment. “Why am I homeless? Why are my friends homeless?”

https://t.co/xA2KakSZes

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

NYC arrested one of the members of the Tompkins Homeless Collective multiple times this week but they can’t stop him from calling out the abuses of the NYC shelter system & demanding apartments for all homeless New Yorkers.

[NYC Sweep Alerts @SweepAlertNYC]

⚠️ CW: Police brutality ⚠️

Fri, 4/22, our friend John Grima was arrested by NYPD during a surprise raid of his camp. No notice, no outreach workers. Just cops. They slammed him against a fence & on the ground so badly he needed an ambulance, then was held in jail over night

[Olympia Kazi @olympiakazi]

I'm shaken. I walked out of my place this morning to find one more time @NYPDnews @NYCSanitation harassing homeless people.

Along w a neighbor walking her dog we talked to the officers asked them to stop treating homeless people like they are the problem ⁦@CarlinaRivera⁩

[tracy rosenthal @tracyrosenthal_]

i just watched 33 cops arrest 2 unhoused people in order to sweep an encampment of 5, the entire nyc housing policy is eviction at gunpoint

[Human.nyc #HumanPlan @humandotnyc]

“You know who I am. You know what I want: Apartments”

This is why so many people find working with outreach so frustrating. People continue to have to share their personal information, their name, date of birth, etc. and don’t feel like they’re getting anything in return.

[collective survival @thebl0w]

Please spread the word. Unhoused New Yorkers are fighting for their right to exist & not be hidden out of sight in an extremely expensive shelter hell. Tmrrw (Weds) morning, East Village, 9th St & Ave B, 7am on. Bring treats, bring your heart. Follow @SweepAlertNYC for updates.

[Karim is reading A Farewell to Arms @shift_in2_turbo]

About 40% of homeless people in NYC are gainfully employed.

I was among them.

[Human.nyc #HumanPlan @humandotnyc]

.@NYCMayor’s policies push people from the subways to the streets, then the streets to the subways, without offering housing.

All the while, homeless people suffer more than they already are and lose any remaining trust or faith in homeless outreach and its ability to help them.

[NYC Sweep Alerts @SweepAlertNYC]

On this #Easter Sunday, the city of New York is sweeping unhoused New Yorkers, including 4 people who live next to a church.

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

@MaraGay A great number of people living outside in NYC do not need supportive housing, they just need an apartment, of which there are tens and tens of thousands sitting empty, owned by the city and by private landlords.

[Isabelle @isabelle_leyva]

I can’t emphasize enough how important it is for people to show up to these sweeps. The cops showed up earlier than usual hoping that press and defenders wouldn’t be present. Without eyes on them, this violence will escalate. Follow @SweepAlertNYC and show up for your community.

[collective survival @thebl0w]

Money can be turned into love! To buy an unhoused New Yorker a new tent: https://t.co/dx8vvwmTnA
Or send real digital cash! The groups showing up for homeless neighbors alchemically transform dollars into care:
Venmo: @wspmutualaid
Cashapp: $wspmutualaid
Follow:@SweepAlertNYC

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

NYC police are storming the tents of homeless New Yorkers while they try to pack up and move their belongings. For weeks the mayor has made daily attacks, trying to disappear these same individuals— all they need to get off the street is housing, which NYC has but won’t provide.

[Isabelle @isabelle_leyva]

Police suddenly rushed the camp while people try to pack.

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

Tomorrow is another chance to come out and defend unhoused New Yorkers from the cops who keep trying to disappear them. Bring a box of coffee, introduce yourself, film the police and no one else— it’s basically just being a good neighbor.

[PRO_NYC @protest_nyc]

The city just posted a 'sweep' notice for tomorrow on 10th St. near Ave. B, a site where dozens of NYPD spent Wednesday morning harassing residents without apparent legal cause while the accused subway shooter was ambling around a few blocks away until civilians saw him.

[Home is a Human Right @homehumanright]

@SafetyNetUJC The mayor and his police go after homeless people as if they’ve caused New Yorkers harm.