Anti-camping ordinances and sweeps are pushing unhoused people into increasingly marginal spaces, exposed to extreme weather.
Officials in cities like Ontario, #California, can be hostile, by, for example, removing park gazebos.
But CA is prone to cycles of drought and heavy rainfall. And when the rain hits, like it did in Nov. 2022, it can be fatal to people living around culverts and drainage.
Racialized efforts by housing reformers missed the big picture in early 20th century Washington DC, says Carolyn Swope in the new Social Science History. Poverty & marginalization not housing damaged the health of low income Black residents.
Open access! https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2023.19
The "housing first" model of homelessness has all the evidence on its side. Finland has been a leader since the 1980's and it's good to see blue states in the US deploying those same ideas.
Supported housing not only changes lives, but saves public money by reducing residents' likelihood of winding up in the ER or the prison system.
A good summary of what recent housing policy changes add up to;
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"If you look at what this government have done, right, so they've dialed back the state house building program, they just cut half a billion $ out of that last week in the budget."
Housing journalist Peter Apps writes about how the Tories held down housing benefit rates which sent homelessness soaring and led to an exodus of poorer people from our cities.
Launched today: https://myCTDeed.com to find and reject racist covenants in #CT property deeds (with June Gold and David Ware)
Also preview of CTPublic documentary "Fighting for Home: How Housing Policy Keeps CT Segregated" (with producer Sabrina Buckwalter and team), airing June 27th #housing#history#advocacy
"Historical photographs showcase the history of Asian American resistance movements from the 1960s to the 1980s, demonstrating the strength and resilience of the Asian American community among tenants, students, and laborers...They also remind us of the civil rights and labor rights won by Asian Americans with the sheer power of the collective."
Lmfao, they write up a sob story for the poor little lord sleeping in the basement of his restaurant but only briefly ask why he doesn't just use his tenant's rent to cover his own rental while he waits for the LTB decision.
His response? "I should not have to do that."
The fucking entitlement.
Does this tenant have a restaurant to sleep in? Do they have a rental income to subsidize their housing? Fuck you CBC.
#housing#homelessness#Paris2024
“They are hiding the misery under the rug. If this really was a dignified solution to the problem, people would be fighting to get on the buses. They’re not. We are in the process of making life impossible for these people and those who support them”