We The Unhoused

We The Unhoused is a podcast that lifts the voices and struggles of the unhoused in LA and beyond hosted by Theo Henderson.

[Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis @RevJacquiLewis]

Poor people also deserve fresh food, and agency over what they buy.

Such blatant cruelty and contempt.

[Truth Seeker @JonesSeeker]

Iowa is 90% white, 3.72% African, 2.85% of (2) other races.

SNAP recipients nationwide are majority White, THEY KNOW THIS.

The 1% believe that the cruelty will gain them laborers for their companies just like eliminating Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Republicans: Diabetes could be 100% solved with healthier eating (not true btw)

Also Republicans: No healthy food on our watch—your options are to eat processed canned food…or starvation

Here are the GOP’s proposed SNAP (food stamp) restrictions. Cruel & dangerous.

[Amie Zamudio @amie_zamudio]

@CD4Monica “Reparations could be ‘difference’ for unhoused Black Californians
California task force recommends reparations for descendants of enslaved people, some of whom are living on the streets”
@WeTheUnhoused
@TheoHen95302259
https://t.co/B28BTzeIyK

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

A powerful nonprofit owns apartments for poor tenants. Why does the elevator keep failing? https://t.co/yZgssFONfX

[marincountyconfidential @marindatanow]

What a beautiful sweet person. What a wrenching loss.

And the police will probably get away with beating him to death, that's the dominant pattern.

If you don't understand by now why we're so against the obscene amount of money going to police in the US, you never will.

[Angie Jean-Marie @angiejeanmarie]

After a series of killings by LAPD this month, it was sobering to run into one of the billboards by @kennethmejiaLA and @theglowingstars that is still up at Olympic and Crenshaw—across from a #BlackLivesMatter sign.

[zella knight @all4thekids]

@MayorOfLA This is the seen there are many unseen... yet madam mayor you have not met directly with those living or lived experience... we are the solutions.

[Wetheunhoused @TheoHen95302259]

Substance usage is not the cause of houselessness.

[marincountyconfidential @marindatanow]

💔oh man

commissioner now talking about example of two unhoused men killed by SFPD. One of the officers KNEW that one of the unhoused men did not speak English. Could the man understand the officer's commands?
@RoofLesser @K_CrowleyLA @TheoHen95302259 @UCBRachelB

[Amie Zamudio @amie_zamudio]

Here at the riverbed pulling people experiencing #homelessness out.

#LivedExperience

[Jamie @Kneedecker]

@indstrlcmplx @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners Then just say, “Personal belongings have to fit in *this* space.” From experience, ‘attacking’ residents’ belongings is an easy way for staff to discourage/remove clients.

[Jamie @Kneedecker]

@indstrlcmplx @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners “2 large duffel bags” & not being allowed to have an extension cord into your sleeping area are, to my eye, the ones that seem most innocuous and have the greatest potential for abuse. The extension cord thing—what if you need to charge your phone to use as an alarm?

[Andy Herman @AndyHrmnpriest1]

@indstrlcmplx @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners People need options & not feel trapped.
& we know that "interim" means pretty much "forever".
The Mayor's vision is a city w/out tents. That would be fine.
If the people who lived in them actually were looked on as human beings.
Not as spots on her glasses to be wiped away.

[food for comrades @foodforcomrades]

@indstrlcmplx @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners thank you so much for sharing this. so many of these rules are absolutely ridiculous

[Kathleen Crowley @K_CrowleyLA]

@indstrlcmplx @RoofLesser @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners And ppl wonder why unhoused ppl are reluctant or refusing to give up their homes, possessions and communities they've built for an interim housing situation in which they can be exited at a moment's notice (now with no tent or ppl) and has no written promise of permanent housing.

[Nonprofitwatch @indstrlcmplx]

@Ry_Guy_Bye @PplsCityCouncil @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners That one is just there to make sure you feel unwelcome in your new home.

[Nonprofitwatch @indstrlcmplx]

@JeremyCapoeira @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners Also this is like 5-6 pages. The full intake probably resembles the PRK intake which was 30 pages at least.

[Nonprofitwatch @indstrlcmplx]

@JeremyCapoeira @KarenBassLA @MayorOfLA @pathpartners It’s supposed to be a home, not a shelter. Or a hotel, at least. Would you sign a lease with all this extra stuff in it?

[Wetheunhoused @TheoHen95302259]

A difference in volunteering than living in a carceral setting. Why a lot of Unhoused people hate shelters. They should be banned