Researchers Gave #Unhoused People $7,500.
The lump sum payments of $7,500 reduced the number of days that recipients were unstably housed by 99 days, did not lead to an increase of spending on #drugs or #alcohol, and created net savings of $777 per person per year from reduced number of days in a #homeless shelter. The Canadian study “adds to growing global evidence demonstrating the benefits of cash transfers to low-income populations," researchers say. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7byem/researchers-gave-unhoused-people-dollar7500-what-happened-next-is-incredible

Good reminder to everyone to feel free to bring your local #Minneapolis #unhoused family some water and ice— or frozen water bottles!

(DM us if you have logistics questions.)

@CelloMomOnCars

New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people.

Guess what?

"They did not spend more money on alcohol or drugs, contrary to what people believe, and instead they spent the money on rent, food, housing, transit, furniture, a used car, clothes. It's entirely the opposite of what people think they're going to do with the money."

Congrats to my UBC colleague Jiaying Zhao on this study.

#Unhoused #CashTransfers #UBC #IRES

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/a-b-c-study-gave-50-homeless-people-7-500-each-here-s-what-they-spent-it-on-1.6540030

Here's hoping Mayor Karen Bass's plan can make a significant difference in the number of #unhoused people in Los Angeles!

https://www.wonkette.com/p/la-mayor-karen-bass-maybe-unhoused?r=cfai&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"Clay Trauernicht, one of Hawaii’s most prominent #wildfire experts...said the deadly Maui blaze has shown clearly how nonnative grasses — many of them on former plantation lands that have been left substantially unmanaged by large #corporate landowners — can cause what might be an otherwise manageable #fire to balloon in size." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/us/hawaii-wildfire-factors.html
#InvasivePlants #InvasiveSpecies #Drought #MauiFires #ClimateChange #WildfireMitigation #CorporateResponsibility #AgDecline #tourism #unhoused #homeless #campfires #fireworks #MotorVehicles

@doctormo @gbhnews

Displacing #unhoused people causes harm, disconnecting people from the small start of networks of support & community that offer the best way to safety & stability.

#Displacement worsens problems— but hides them from richer society and the media that is supposed to be our eyes & ears.

The question to ask each #houseless person threatened with a so-called #sweep is what alternative they have been directly offered, and, if any, why it is inadequate for ending #homelessness

#UNHOUSED #BILLOFRIGHTS by
Congresswoman @coribush (MO-01) - https://bush.house.gov/imo/media/doc/unhoused_bill_of_rights_2023_one_pager.pdf
#housing #coriBush #missouri

This! #trauma #unhoused #addiction

This proposal in much needed because so many cities, Seattle included, unlawfully “sweep” street residencies of #unhoused people, destroying and disposing their belongings. Establishing these points as rights is vital to us all. Representative Cori Bush reintroduces bill of rights for unhoused people. #sweeps #BillOfRights #housing https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/2/headlines/rep_cori_bush_reintroduces_unhoused_bill_of_rights

That sort of personnel change, with the same results of cops quitting, is the *minimum* of what #Minneapolis parks would do if they were not much more committed to harassing Black people and brutalizing #unhoused people than even a wealthy white town.

After California woman lying in grass killed by lawnmower, advocates, family question police https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/07/19/christine-chavez-lawnmower-killing-modesto-concerns/70433060007/ #christinechavez #modesto #modestopolice #gallowinery #StanislausCounty #unhoused

Beautiful human alert: Stacey Buckner.

"Through her program, Off-Road Outreach (https://offroadoutreach.com/), Buckner has helped more than 1,000 veterans in Fayetteville, N.C. Using her own off-road vehicle – a Jeep that has accommodations for water, heating, and cooking – Buckner provides mobile showers, laundry services, and meals to homeless veterans in her hometown, known for its proximity to Fort Liberty [US Army]."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/us/north-carolina-military-jeep-homeless-veterans-cnnheroes/index.html #GoodNews #military #Vets #veterans #unhoused

There are about 12,441 #homeless people in #Ireland, and approximately 200,000 #EmptyHouses. Even if, as is plausible, the #unhoused figureis are underestimated by an order of magnitude, we can still comfortably give everyone in the country a home.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0720/1395486-derelict-properties/

4 reasons why homelessness keeps going up https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1186856463/homelessness-rent-affordable-housing-encampments

#unhousedpopulation #unhoused

Tonight I attended a neighborhood meeting regarding a planned "clean up" of a homeless encampment just outside a nearby park. Homelessness is a persistent problem in Los Angeles; the number of homeless persons increased by about 10% in 2022, based on the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, as part of an ongoing year-to-year trend. While the city attempts to couch its methods of approaching the issue in terms of compassion, it is always clear that the views of most housed individuals is that they just want the homeless people to go away, with little to no compassion for the lives or welfare of those people.

The meeting did not begin well. After some opening comments by the police who were hosting the meeting and representatives from other organizations, one of the members of the encampment attempted to read a statement about how they have been treated and what their needs are. The officer who was moderating the meeting cut off the statement because it was "not a question" while large parts of the audience heckled the speaker. This "must be a question" requirement was enforced unevenly for the rest of the meeting, and it was particularly harsh to mete out against the people who are under threat by the planned sweep, who rarely have a chance to be heard by their community.

Thus the voice of our homeless neighbors was silenced by the forces arrayed against them. To promote their message, if ever so slightly, I am sharing a link to their statement here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M-3Gp9YHLRw3v0zF1e6_t5gjxmRKIEcC/view?usp=sharing

I pray that all of you may find kindness in your hearts when you have a chance to encounter those marginalized and dehumanized by society. Maybe even get to know them a bit.

#homeless #unhoused #nimby #sweep #police

You may have heard about the findings of #ucsf bhhi's recent study on statewide #homelessness. But did you know that the team behind the project has members who are or were #Unhoused ?

Story by TJJohnston415

#housethehomeless #california
http://www.streetsheet.org/these-researchers-lived-through-homelessness-now-theyve-analyzed-it/

When I see a sign at a huge parking lot that reads No Overnight Parking, I feel pissed off. It's bad enough there's hardly anywhere for anyone to relax comfortably anymore. Not #unhoused, but WTF #America.

@dangrsmind
All elected officials should get this involved in their constituents lives.

#homeless #unhoused #bayarea

https://www.haystack.tv/v/phoenix-city-council-approves-proposed-campground-zone?utm_source=digest-editor-b&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DigestEmails&utm_term=headline-0
#Arizona #unhoused

The brutality toward #unhoused people in #Minneapolis is directly tied to the dirty politics scuttling the popular vote for #RentControl

They cannot destroy all initiatives for stable housing for people without also having every agency coordinating in chasing people who don't have housing out of the city.