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Tenants, as an organized class, can change the structure of our economy, the nature of our cities and towns, the power dynamic between profiteers and people. Our experiments with tenant union organizing via KC Tenants by Conor Dougherty in The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/10/15/bus…

🧵Want to know why rents have been skyrocketing? This jaw dropping ProPublica investigation has one answer--collusion. RealPage's YieldStar proprietary software is helping the nation's biggest landlords and property managers jack up prices together. 1/10 propublica.org/article/yields…

Today, San Francisco Mayor’s installed interim DA said their policy is “a war on fentanyl” and her installed Board of Supervisor said “it is a war on drug addicts.”

We need science, health, and compassion to drive drug policy.

We could not be more excited to introduce the inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Ideas & Organizing given by the inimitable Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor! An in-person prgrm on Feb. 15 w/Cheryl Harris UCLA School of Law & Marques Vestal UCLA Urban Planning and moderated by Institute on Inequality & Democracy's own Ananya Roy🔥

Big endorsement by S.F. Democratic Party for John Hamasaki for D.A. John led the police commissions resolution to end the use of officers as first responders to homelessness and has worked with us on alternatives Compassionate Alternative Response Team - SF . sfchronicle.com/sf/article/For… via San Francisco Chronicle

Alex has some of the best sociological diagnosis and prescription for handling psychiatric care in California and ongoing Conservatorship debates. He also spent a lot of time studying how this all works in France: uclahs.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

This decision is so important, and yet, we shouldn't need courts to tell us that we can't punish people for sleeping and sheltering themselves when there's literally nowhere else to do that.

We're better than this, America.

#HousingNotHandcuffs

SF mayors from Lee to Breed cite numbers of “exits to housing” of which over 50% are comprised of bus tickets out of town. Meanwhile 18% of those currently homeless in San Francisco have been in “permanent supportive housing.” We need real social housing and meaningful support.

“The lawsuit also names as a plaintiff Teresa Sandoval, an unhoused double amputee who says DPW took her prosthetics during a sweep”

The city’s ongoing criminalization of the unhoused and property destruction through the pandemic was cruel abuse. I reviewed hundreds of pages of admin data for an expert declaration in this case. It was worse than I thought. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F… via San Francisco Chronicle

This is the most promising litigation we’ve had in SF. The city’s ongoing criminalization of the unhoused and property destruction through the pandemic was cruel abuse. I reviewed hundreds of pages of admin data for an expert declaration in this case. It was worse than I thought.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS📝Institute on Inequality & Democracy is pleased to announce the *inaugural* offering of Ideas & Organizing Doctoral Awards for #UCLA doctoral students. Those who've participated in shared research and organizing w/movement-based orgs are encouraged to apply>>challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/research-and-a…

The senate just voted 30-3 in support of our bill forgiving parking tickets for people who are unhoused living in their vehicle.

We can’t penalize our way out of poverty.
I’m grateful my colleagues agree.

Atlanta cut homelessness by 40% through housing

Houston cut homelessness by 63% through housing

Finland cut homelessness by 75% through housing

Tokyo cut homelessness by 80% through housing

The solution to homelessness isn’t policing — it’s housing, housing, and more housing

I’ll keep saying this till I’m blue in the face.

Project Roomkey funding is NOT ENDING. The federal reimbursement drops from 100% to 90%.

Cities/counties that are closing Roomkey hotels are choosing to do so — NOT being forced to do so. spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/hom…

“Services and shelters” . . . Seeing lots of news media in the past 48 hours covering this with 0 details or questions as to what “services and shelters” are actually being offered. Would love to see some real investigative journalism on this. Please share if you come across it.

Do you live in your vehicle?
Do you want to support vehicle residents and end the criminalization of vehicle residency?
Join the National Vehicle Residency Collective for a free virtual summit on November 18 and 19!