This is what movement building looks like! #HousingSolvesHomelessness

Great job to all the speakers, volunteers and National Homelessness Law Center for your leadership. And big shout out to Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social. 👏🏽👏🏽

So much positive energy here today! Hope it reaches inside!

#HousingSolvesHomelessness

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We have shown that housing works. In many communities ended long term homelessness among veterans because we invested in housing and services. All people need this same help. Kathryn Monet National Coalition for Homeless Veterans

#HousingNotHandcuffs #HousingSolvesHomelessness

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: 'All humans engage in the act in question: sleeping. And yet the ordinance operates to penalize only certain individuals, those who have no choice but to do that act in public.'

Homelessness is the result of broken promises and broken public policies. A mentality of scarcity in a country of abundance. #HousingNotHandcuffs #HousingSolvesHomelessness Donald Whitehead National Coalition for the Homeless

What do we want? HOUSING JUSTICE

When do we want it? NOW

#HousingNotHandcuffs #HousingSolvesHomelessness

Homelessness doesn’t happen because of broken people. People are unhoused because of broken systems. #HousingNotHandcuffs #HousingSolvesHomelessness Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹@jesserbnwtz.bsky.social National Homelessness Law Center

People are unhoused because of hard times. Poverty and homelessness are not a choice. People need help. Justice is investing in affordable housing. Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Poor People's Campaign #HousingSolvesHomelessness

Freedom comes with HOUSING JUSTICE!! Funders Together to End Homelessness Amanda Misiko Andere She/Her #HousingSolvesHomelessness

If you can’t be here in person, be with us in spirit. Follow the live stream here. #HousingNotHandcuffs !

At the Supreme Court today with National Homelessness Law Center and advocates from across the country to get the message out the HOUSING ends homelessness, not fines or jail. #HousingNotHandcuffs !

📅 Date: April 22
🕑 Time: 10 AM - 12 PM ET
📍 Location: U.S. Supreme Court, 1 First Street NE, D.C.
🔗RSVP to the rally johnsonvgrantspass.com. Let’s fill the streets with hope and demand action. See YOU at the rally! #JohnsonVGrantsPass #Homeless #EndHomelessness

YES! See you there Mark Horvath!

We all need a safe place to call home. In our new Center on Budget blog, Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social) and I explain that we can solve #homelessness if we address its primary driver: the gap between incomes and rents. cbpp.org/blog/solutions…

Unjust systems are acting exactly as designed. Policy action must center what works for the people harmed most by racism and discrimination. Otherwise we will get the same old, same old crappy results - which means Black women keep working extra hard and getting much less.

Jailing/fining people for sleeping outside is not the solution to rising levels of homelessness—housing is. Expanding rental assistance can help close the widening gap between incomes and rents. More from Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social) and Anna Bailey cbpp.org/blog/solutions…

Look forward to co-moderating @NPQuarterly's webinar 4/17, 2P ET w/Trevor Smith, who wrote this article: nonprofitquarterly.org/to-build-narra…. Also w/Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social) @CenteronBudget, Jeremie Greer Liberation in a Generation, Jessica Feingold Common Future & Nick Tilsen. Sign up at: bit.ly/49Xz4sD

Communities can do better than fining & jailing people who are unhoused.

CA’s Santa Clara County, where the avg home costs $1.5m, created deeply affordable housing, leading to 26,000 people housed & invested in nearly 17,000 people receiving homelessness prevention help.

Trevor Smith & I look forward to discussing overcoming narrative roadblocks to #economicjustice w/Peggy Bailey (@peggybaileydc.bsky.social) @CenteronBudget, Jeremie Greer Liberation in a Generation, Jessica Feingold Common Future, & Nick Tilsen NDN Collective @NPQuarterly's webinar 4/17, 2p ET: bit.ly/49Xz4sD