I was honored to be the first speaker at our Rally in front of the Supreme Court. People without homes need housing, healthcare, and supportive services - not tickets and threats of arrests! Here’s a link to my four-minute remarks. facebook.com/share/rMBMDt3U…

How to solve homelessness:

✅Create & preserve affordable housing
✅Fund rental & homelessness assistance programs
✅Accessible healthcare

“These things happened just a few years ago for the pandemic—our government made it happen. It is a choice.”…

Today, the Supreme Court will hear Johnson v. Grants Pass.
To learn more about the case, visit johnsonvgrantspass.com.
National Coalition for the Homeless
End Homelessness
Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home
Dana White
Community Solutions
CSH

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I’m honored to be one of the speakers advocating in front of the Supreme Court on Monday for #HousingJustice !

The National Institute for Medical Respite Care, a special program of NHCHC, is seeking presentation proposals for the inaugural California #RecuperativeCare Symposium, slated for Sept. 12-13, 2024, in Sacramento, CA. Learn more: ow.ly/9VAf50QFcs4

#CRCS2024

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council is looking for people with lived experience of homelessness who have survived an environmental emergency to help inform regional conversations about disaster response. Learn more here: ow.ly/WXuE50Qojop

Do you know an outstanding #homeless health care provider or advocate? We are accepting nominations for our annual awards as well as our Board of Directors and the steering committees that help guide our work. We want to hear from you! Nominate by Feb. 29: nhchc.org/2024-call-for-…

We're looking for people with lived experience of homelessness to join us for regional conversations about the best ways to support the unhoused in an environmental emergency. Learn more and please share these links with those who may wish to participate: ow.ly/WXuE50Qojop

Happy holidays from NHCHC! We're so grateful for our community, and wish each and every one of you abundant light, love, and strength in the new year.

The Council's office is closed this week so our team can take time to rest and recharge. We'll be back Jan. 2.

'People who are experiencing homelessness, by and large, are poor, they don’t have $10 to pay a ticket, so this is all kinds of backward,' Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social said.

#HousingNotHandcuffs #HomesNotFines

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We are grateful for the individuals and organizations driving the Health Care for the Homeless movement forward. We appreciate your wisdom, your passion, and your commitment to just and equal access to high-quality health care for all. Thank you for being part of our community!

Please join us Nov. 14 at 2 p.m. CST to officially launch the #MedicalRespite Playbook and
explore this new resource together! Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Lori Yearwood Lori was hands-down my favorite reporter, whom I came to trust completely. She always checked quotes and provided the correct context. She wrote beautifully and turned her pain into promise for others. We have lost a great writer - and I a great friend.

Just one day in jail for an unhoused addict can be fatal. The most ineffective and expensive responses to homelessness are criminalization and incarceration.

Dr. Jim Withers: “Street Medicine is doing the right thing until you get caught - and then figuring out another way to do it.”

“Street Medicine” is an intrinsically unnatural act in society. It is an inversion of power dynamics” - medical professionals going to work alongside and under society’s most marginalized. Thank you, Dr. Withers!

The Street Medicine Symposium of Michigan is getting ready to start with an opening by Dr. Jim Withers. I’m honored to be one of the plenary speakers this morning. Street Medicine saves lives!

Heart disease & diabetes are major health concerns among the homeless population in the U.S. Our new fact sheet gives an overview of heart disease & diabetes within the homeless community & outlines potential strategies for intervention. Grab it here: nhchc.org/resource/heart…

The NatlHCHCouncil supports National Homelessness Law Center & National Coalition for Housing Justice in their call to stop criminalizing homelessness and to stop police violence against people without homes!

Hundreds of people experiencing homelessness died in Maricopa County last year. Will 2023 be worse? azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

It's outrageous that in the richest country in the world, people are dying on the streets at alarming rates.
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