“This is an aging population — nearly half of the single adults are 50 and older,” she wrote. “Nearly half of those first became homeless after they turned 50."
Our brutal economy the the politics of selfishness leading to the unwillingness to create social housing and universal health care is causing homelessness -- not the laziness of the unhoused. This study on homelessness is devastating.
Homeless people participating in the study said that as little as $300 would have kept them off the street. 90% became homeless in California.
' The study’s authors say the findings highlight the idea that money, more than addiction, mental health, poor decisions or other factors, is the main cause of – and potential solution to – homelessness. '
I’ve read a lot about how various cities are coping (often poorly) with the needs of #homeless folks; this article provided some valuable context.
“Five years ago, a federal court issued a crucial ruling. People experiencing homelessness, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said, can’t be punished for sleeping outside on public property if there are no adequate alternatives available.”
Subject: What qualities in people can easily bring about them suffering trauma?
I'm composing a list...
Of things where almost everyone in that group, if asked, "Has being [...] led to you suffering significant trauma in your life?" would answer, "yes!" 😳
Wow #CareCourt looks like the worst attempt to "help" homeless people. Care Court: "Maybe if a judge waggles their finger at a schizophrenic person VERY sternly, they'll take their meds on their own!" #sfba#politics#homelessness
Before 1982 #homelessness was so rare, you needed a trained eye to see it. How to end homelessness: build public housing, raise the minimum wage to $30/hr (what you need for a one bedroom), expand rent control, pass single payer healthcare (no more medical bankruptcy) and we are done.
Anyone here know of any good recent data or studies on the vilification or dehumanization of people experiencing homelessness in popular cuture?
I'm looking for some macro evidence to support (or refute!) the impression that we're seeing more of this stuff in the news and on social media of late, or that it's gotten harsher, or both.
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Karim Walker, an organizer and outreach specialist for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, speaks with @THECITY about the way unhoused people and others who are experiencing mental health challenges are perceived by others.
"There's this image that homeless folks are [...] responsible for their own fate. That's not always the case. Most Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless themselves."
This is coordinated genocide. Governments cannot block off every last single scrap of land, despite acres being utterly unused, and claim they are not criminalizing #homelessness (about which the MNDOT ombudsman tried to split hairs with me a year ago) and continuing the genocide of Native people— "a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups"
Researchers used comics to explore how community-centered AI design can include both the people experiencing #homelessness and the frontline workers who use #AI to help them. This work bridges the gaps between the technical & social of computer science, and between researchers & impacted communities.
Rethink and redefine the systems that address homelessness in California. Excellent talk: https://www.uctv.tv/shows/38782
Spending billions but homelessness increases,as does public demonization. Seeking to build basic housing & understand the complicated causes to prevent it with services. #homelessness
It's quite a conservative country & until 2019 the population was stable & now it's only slightly positive. It does make it easier to avoid problems with #homelessness.
Homeless people are people. Just give them homes. It's been proven to save public money. Just give them homes. It's been proven to reduce drug dependency and mental crises. Just give them homes. It literally ends homelessness. Just give them homes. NOT KILL THEM.
Anyone who claims that things are getting better is welcome to come here and see reality. What we are seeing is more people #hungry, more people running out of gas/electric, more people with no credit on their phones, more people #struggling with mental health, more people with physical #health problems, more people in #debt crisis, more people at risk of #homelessness, more people hardly ever leaving their homes.