'When a child is forced to leave a shelter, their place in the school community is threatened,' said Shahana Hanif 🦾, calling the administration limiting families in shelters to 60-day stays 'a new low.'

NEW from Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio/Report for America
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Feels great seeing our human rights work on #housing and #homelessness gain traction in the domestic advocacy arena. Thank you, Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home, for covering this and uplifting the United Nations's conclusions and recommendations to the U.S. government. 🙏🏼👏🏼

U.N. Calls For U.S. To Abolish Laws Criminalizing Homelessness

The call follows a report from National Homelessness Law Center @UMlawHRC Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity that shows the U.S.' failure stem the tide of homelessness by failing to provide affordable housing.

Invisible People ➤ Imagine Everyone With a Home
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Proud to be part of this #powerhouse team! National Homelessness Law Center

'Housing is a human right' is more than just a slogan, it's an obligation that the U.S. government is failing to ensure.

Register for the HR2H Report Card Webinar to learn what this can mean for homelessness advocacy: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Everyone from everywhere can see the bullshit. And it’s taking the UN to tell us how to run our country because we have become totally blind and incompetent as to how. Greed and war have taken over the fetishizers lusts and they’ve left everyone else out to die off.

BREAKING: United Nations Human Rights Committee has recommended the abolition of laws that criminalize homelessness in the U.S.

They also recommend reallocating funds away from law enforcement and towards adequate housing.

Read National Homelessness Law Center statement here: homelesslaw.org/law-center-sta…

United Nations National Homelessness Law Center These recommendations come after the United Nations HRC's recent review in Geneva which investigated the U.S.' violations of international human rights treaties. A testimony by Siya Hegde National Homelessness Law Center and shadow report with UM Law Human Rights informed the Committee's recommendations.

Thanks to UN Special Procedures Ashwini K.P for hearing our testimony on the racially disparate impacts of criminalization of homelessness and the use of involuntary commitments in the U.S. We need #HousingNotHandcuffs ! #HousingIsAHumanRight !

Law Center Statement on Today’s United Nations Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People 1/3

Read full statement here: bit.ly/47jqEda

'Good Cause Eviction laws would have helped keep those tenants in their homes, and made life for remaining tenants easier.'

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*: A Private Equity Firm Bought This East Village Apartment Complex. A Year Later, Most of the Original Tenants Are Gone hellgatenyc.com/private-equity…

Encampments are primarily the result of systemic causes: rising rents and stagnant wages, not individual causes. Policing won’t change those systemic things, and that’s why criminalization won’t end encampments. #HousingNotHandcuffs ends homelessness.

Excited to be in community today with experts & advocates IU McKinney Law on an enriching symposium about 'Health, Housing, and the Environment.'

Topics to be covered: accessing housing, Housing First model, environmental impacts on housing

National Homelessness Law Center Housing Not Handcuffs

This is shameful. Boston City Council has voted to evict a large encampment and devote millions of dollars to policing and security to enforce no camping bans around the city.

Not only does this not end homelessness, it diverts $ and time away from solving homelessness.

Powerful to join New Yorkers of all walks of life—longtime or recently arrived; directly impacted and advocates; and of diverse faiths, or perhaps none at all—in a prayer vigil to support the right to shelter, including for asylum seekers.

'....we didn't come here to ask for charity. We didn't come here to beg or be a burden on the State. We came here to work.' African Communities Together 🙏🏼

As winter approaches, faith leaders and housing advocates gather at a vigil for asylum seekers in NYC.

#righttoshelter National Homelessness Law Center

ICYMI: Federal agents shot and paralyzed a man while evicting his family from a homeless encampment in Idaho.

Thank you to Josh Marcus ✌🏻 at The Independent for covering this awful & preventable violence.

Powerful quotes from National Homelessness Law Center in article below

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Nothing about displacing migrant children from a shelter site and a school is okay. Nothing about forced relocation is okay. Nothing about lack of adequate housing is okay.

NYC Mayor's Office Homeless Services Governor Kathy Hochul

At our hearing on legal services for asylum seekers, I was overjoyed to hear that our City has FINALLY invested in the coordinated legal services we've been demanding for well over a year. The issue? The process is slow, so we're yet to see results.
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Several New York City landlords and brokers are routinely barring tenants from renting apartments if they rely on government assistance to help pay for it, a new report by housing advocates alleges. bit.ly/406m0wW