#unhoused rights

[chronicallycouchbound]

I can’t live in over 99% of housing.

This is not an exaggeration.

“Less than 1 percent of all units are equipped with features that would allow a wheelchair user to live independently.” (HUD.gov)

My experiences of homelessness are inherently tied to this.

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#us specific statistics #chronically couchbound #disability #disabled #cripplepunk #cripple punk #homeless #unhoused #houseless #chronically homeless #disability rights #housing justice #unhoused rights #homeless statistics #disability statistics #image description #image described #described #access is a human right #wheelchair accessible #accessibility #accessible housing #equal access #housing instability #housing insecurity #housing rights #houseism #houseist #hostile architecture #hostile housing

[allthecanadianpolitics]

This afternoon Brandi Morin, a journalist on assignment for Ricochet Media, was arrested by the Edmonton Police Service while covering a police raid on an unhoused encampment. Morin was coincidentally present to conduct interviews when police started to set up for a raid, including setting up a cordon of yellow tape out of clear view of the encampment. When the raid began, Morin was filming police arrests that she describes as “violent.” She was told to leave the area by a police officer, and explained that she was a journalist, was covering what was happening and would not be able to do so if she left. She also explained to the officer that legal precedent from high courts in two provinces holds that police exclusion zones which prevent journalists from doing their job are unlawful. She was then arrested, handcuffed and informed that she would be charged with obstruction. She was taken to a police station where she was told she may be held for up to 72 hours before seeing a judge. She also suffered a minor injury to her wrist in the course of being arrested.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #alberta #unhoused #homelessness #journalism #police violence #police brutality #acab #human rights

[perrysoup]

Am I a radical because I think people should be paid fairly? Am I a radical because I think Heathcare is a right ? Am I a radical because I think the unhoused are from a failure by the state to provide them housing and support?

Am I a radical because I think all people should be treated equally?

Am I a radical because I realize equality don't mean the same thing for everyone, it means giving people what they need to be on the same level?

Am I a radical because I think that food and drink are a right?

Am I a radical because I want peace?

Am I a radical because jobs should be what you love, not what you are forced to do?

Am I a radical because I think colonization is bad?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefits I have had from being a White, Straight, Male?

Am I a radical because I don't ignore the benefit I have the totalitarian policies of the US in relation to the world?

Am I a radical for speaking up against the horrors of capitalism?

Am I a radical for thinking that a single country should not determine the worlds safety?

Am I a radical for think war is bad?

Am I a radical for thinking civilians shouldn't be killed?

If that's what defines a radical, then that's what I am. And I'm proud to be one.

#radical #rights #human rights #trans rights #disabled rights #equality #equity #housing #universal healthcare #anti colonialism #anti capitalism #anti war #peace #unhoused #perryrants

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

unhoused people are vulnerable members of your community who deserve basic respect and solidarity!!

we owe it to the unhoused people in our communities to fight for their rights to live unharassed by police and to get their needs met in ways that preserve their autonomy!!

if you see people living outdoors, especially when the weather is bad, your first instinct should be concern for their wellbeing!!

If you hear people talking about vulnerable members of your community like they're vermin, SPEAK UP.

speak out against your local government responding to vulnerable people having no place to go by sending cops to steal all their stuff or imprison them!!

If you're a "respectable" Nice Middle Class Citizen, USE THAT to protect people in your community treated as disposable!!

agitate for housing first programs and aid programs, and to end police harassment of encampments!

unhoused people are our neighbors!! they are human beings worthy of protection and care!!

#thatdiabolicalfeminist #people who think they're progressive saying heinous shit about unhoused people needs to stop #come ON if you are so pro human rights you need to step the fuck UP and work to protect them in your own neighborhood!!

[hadeantaiga]

Society needs to do a few things to help unhoused people. Firstly, and obviously, those who want to be housed in houses and apartments should be able to get them. Cities should create and enforce rent reduction policies on landlords who let apartments and homes sit vacant - and if they sit vacant too long, the city takes control of the property. Most Airbnbs have to go. Apartments and homes that are foreclosed or owned by banks need to be given to the city to be used for low income or free housing. House selling agencies like Zillow etc who have unsold properties just sitting around should be forced to lower the prices of those homes until someone buys them, and if they are still vacant after a certain amount of time, they too go to the city to manage. You wanna get angry? Google the number of foreclosed homes in your town or city, then Google the estimated homeless population in your area.

But.

I also think society needs to get easier for people who don't have and don't want a permanent house or apartment?? Cities and towns need to ease restrictions on "tiny homes", trailers, campers, mobile homes, live-in-vans, and things like that. They need to provide safe, dry areas for people who want to camp. They need to provide clean places to bathe and shower and clean your clothes. They need to provide water and electricity and plumbing to these places. Because of how job applications work right now, those camps need to have a real address that the people living there can use.

Oh yeah - and of course, hostile architecture needs to be banned WHILE mandating that public spaces must have a minimum mandatory amount of seating.

#homelesness #human rights #unhoused

[tekra-brings-the-rain]

There’s a new law in the works to keep house less people from sleeping on the street, and not in a good way.

This could go to ways: institutionalization (especially targeting disabled people) or jail/imprisonment.

I’m mainly going to talk about the former here, since I am disabled and have been unhoused.

The state uses many times more to institutionalize disabled people (a lot of times to use them as jobs) than to keep them in the community. The state is making money off of people being locked up.

The goal is, of course, making sure you work until you die or are disabled, then if that you don’t die you can’t afford anything, become unhoused, then go to a prison, and can be forced to work. It is legal to be a slave if you are incarcerated, and even if you get out if they make it a felony you won’t be able to vote to change anything.

We are seen as more valuable locked away than in society. Disabled people have been trying to raise the alarm about these policies, like that of Gavin Newsom’s new care courts, and nobody listens.

I ask you, this time, listen.

#prison abolition #disabled rights #worker’s rights #homelessness #unhoused #housing crisis #poverty #eat the rich #leftism #uspol #us politics

[fuwaprince]

I want poor people to pick apart US billionaires the same way that hungry birds are picking apart the galve goat to survive winter.

#galve goat #🐐 #not so fun being the scapegoat is it???? #this is for not taking any responsibility #this is for the unhoused and starving #this is for taking away the $1 McChicken #i want to devour jeff bozos adams apple #this is for the future children and the children going through it right now

[slugandthorn]

The coolest gender thing in the 2009 Japanese video game persona 3 100% how hard they coded shinjiro as the dead mom

#.txt #i got soooo mad in the car driving home thinking about how his drug addiction is essentially the classic anime heart condition. #in that the only side effect of the suppressants is that they will kill him. like? #i realized for the longest time i had assumed the chest pain and sweating came from the drugs but thats. castor. obviously. #it doesnt affect his mood or his awareness its like a mood stabilizer pain relief pill? #its so odd that hes framed as like. being addicted to illegal street drugs. BY THE NARRATIVE. #when its more like hes on the most insane experimental medication that they wont even test on like. rats. #also im not fact checking any of this before posting. so i might be lying about things. #idk if it was all of strega that had trouble controlling their personas but like. chidori was because of the Experimentation. #and shinjis just like. mentally ill coded. in a bad way 😭 #The inability to regulate a mood/stimuli to the point where he can be unsafe to himself or others. #broad ass symptom of disorders that are not treated well. its also interesting that its not brought on by a specific event. #like the childhood fire is there. but you have akihiko right there to directly compare it to. and hes arguably more effected by it all. #and he seems to be coping well 10+ years on like some coping mechanisms are kind of weird (protein) but nothing super out of the ordinary. #so the problem is really the october 4th incident which was just a pure honest to god accident. #the fact that it gets covered up as a car accident does feel like the best like. emotional equivalent. #because it being shinji being unable to control his persona his true representation of himself and it resulting in death is sooooo bleak #and it weighs on him for 2+ years of being suicidal and unhoused until finally he goes through with his suicide by martyrdom. #i lost the plot a little bit on the gender situation with the vague allusions to fraility when story convenient #acting as dorm den mother and cooking and sewing long hair jacket sillhouette reading like a dress #was referring to that before mental illness took over. woman under the influencing this anime boy. #long way of saying i think he should have a over the shoulder ponytail when hes older. and he should have a mood disorder.

[oddlittlestories]

Okay but House would at least have begrudging respect for Golden Girls, right?

#golden girls went hard #they said gay rights #unhoused people rights #mental health age gaps racism #headcanons #house md #house md headcanons

[chronicallycouchbound]

I think a part of the collective trauma of homelessness often overlooked by housed people is how many of us have known dozens of fellow unhoused people who have died.

Peter, Abby, Kali, Ryan, Sierra, Sarah, Kari, Lucky, Irish, Joy, Anita, Hazel, David, Ariah, Jesse, Hunter, and I could keep going.

These people were my street family members. Most of them were people of color, and most were a part of other marginalized communities. These are just the people I was close to who have passed-- dozens of other unhoused people have died in just my community alone who I didn't know personally or were before I was around.

We deserve better.

#chronically couchbound #blacklivesmatter #unhoused neighbors #unhoused #unhoused rights #homelessness #poverty #housing crisis #support bipoc #bipoc homeless

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Three people were led away from a central Edmonton homeless encampment in handcuffs Wednesday, a day after some people living there refused orders to leave. Police said one male and two females were arrested for "obstructing police" and charges are pending. Officers began surrounding the camp, located on vacant land on Rowland Road and 95 Street, around noon, wrapping the perimeter of the site in yellow tape.

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[skincareroutine]

i was walking with my sis down town and this unhoused woman with pretty styled red hair stopped me on the street and told me i look really cute and i was like omg thank youuu in a rlly high pitched voice like a cartoon character i was sooo caught off guard anyway slay recognized slay

#anyway i dont think she was unhoused my sister said she was but she had red hair that looked maintained n my sis was like what does that #matter n i was like huh. i guess ur right. i had a bigot moment

[jvzebel-x]

but it's all about "protecting the children", right?

#hypocritical worthless pieces of shit every single fucker who pushes their hate like they give a fuck about kids #i dont even feel comfortable being anywhere near children anymore unless everyone is explicitly aware that im a swer #bc im not about to be outted&also made to look like a fucking gr**mer in one foul swoop #AND I AM NOT EVEN THE TARGET OF THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN PUSHED NATIONALLY RIGHT NOW #sex work just always gets caught up in this sort of bigotry. #i hope everyone is staying safe ESP if youre out in portland oregon on the streets right now. #violence is fucking afoot. be kind to your neighbors-- esp your trans and/or unhoused ones. #undescribed

[soldier-poet-king]

I have a staff work luncheon tmrw and it's at an exclusive insane rich white ppl club, BC one of the office lady's husband apparently has thousands of thousands of dollars to spend on an annual membership to this snooty club, and like. They emailed us a DRESS CODE, a SEVERE one. + a bunch of other etiquette rules I've never heard of

Im gonna show up and the poor person alarm is gonna go off like. Beep beep beep this bitch took public transit here! The outfit is mostly thrifted! She's living in her parents' basement BC rent is astronomical! She uses COUPONS! She wanted to wear pants but was too afraid of the Big Bad Gendered dress code and so forced herself into the one (1) formal dress she owns!!! This bitch doesn't even own a clutch! The purse backpack is GREEN and was clearance at WINNERS

I would literally rather stay home and play totk but free bougie food and I get to go home 2 hrs early and I still get paid a full day. And I have to play nice and make a good impression bc there is a possibility of being hired for another year contract. So.

#franposting #get ready for me to bitch abt how much i hate wealth #and how unethical i find this entire concept #IM SORRY??? you have to pay SO MUCH money to be a part of this special british white ppl rich ppl club #i would rather. eat fuckin mcdonalds sitting on the grimy sidewalk downtown with the unhoused stoners #i am going bc i want to get paid and i dont get paid if i call in sick #but. literally. hate hate triple hate #im going to have to wear MAKEUP #drawing the linr at wearing heels. my hip hurts too much. i will claim chronic disability if i have too #which is technically true. bones dont align right

[thatiranianphantom]

Also, maybe it’s a hot take but if you go so far to the left, it also makes you unable to have a conversation or engage in the “education” you so preach.

#TIP speaks #mostly looking at the tiktok generation #and like my sister tbh #who assures me people being unhoused is not a complex issue #and like I just think #whatever side you come down on #sociologically speaking it is complex? #like I am a very left leaning person #but the no room for debate people on the far far left #is that different then being stuck and indoctrinated on the right?

[transcourse]

for my LA friends who are registered to vote— this mayoral election is gonna be a big fucking deal. it’s the first time ballots are going to be mailed to every eligible voter, and on top of that, if a candidate gets more than 50%+ of the vote in June’s primary, they win outright, no general election.

on top of this, the frontrunner for the Republican Party, Caruso, is a Trump-esque billionaire who is anti-abortion, and has spent millions upon millions of dollars more on campaign ads in comparison to any other candidate regardless of party, meaning a lot of uneducated/not politically involved voters may have only heard about him when the ballot arrives in the mail— which makes his strategy to avoid the general election altogether that much more obvious. his platform is outright against abortion, and actively criminalizes unhoused people even moreso.

i’m not going to tell you who to vote for, but ultimately ANY vote towards ANY candidate in the race besides Caruso will take away from his ability to gain the 50% he’d need to win outright. obviously, voting is not the end-all be-all, but if you’re registered and getting a ballot anyway, you might as well help keep a racist, rich, anti-homeless, anti-abortion asshat from buying L.A.’s mayoral office in the primary like he plans to.

here is the link to register to vote online

#i said it in the post but ik that voting doesn’t fix a lot of the issues we have in place #but having an anti-abortion nut job in a reliably blue city that would be disproportionately harmed by abortion restrictions #bc of how many lower class and minority people live there #as well as fucking over the already struggling unhoused population there #would be hell #my post #reproductive rights #los angeles #california #L.A. #L.A #uh uh #idk if those tags are even used a lot by Californians #local elections #rick caruso #l.a primaries #California primaries