Dear WRAP Friends and Family, As 2025 closes, we’re reminded that the people who fight hardest for justice often face the harshest attacks. It’s going to take ALL of us to weather this storm and build the new, more just world that we know is possible and... Read More: conta.cc/4rxdfZV

HOMELESSNESS - How the f!@# do we got here? part 3

How is San Francisco criminalization of people living under extreme poverty...

oh yes! the heinous crime of existing on the sidewalk...

love is in the air...

This video is part of the @benandjerrysfoundation 40 Voices for 40 Years campaign, lifting up the organizations we’ve been proud to support over the years. Follow along to amplify their voices. www.instagram.com/p/DQwuSLBETlz/

this is how federal government wants to solved homelessness without building new public housing... looks cool how they make more programs, feels like magic! but without restoring the public housing budget homelessness will keep increasing as it has since 1980's... www.facebook.com/reel/2066223...

Denver, CO. City Council Votes Down Shelter for Families – SHAME

is not the systems failure, it's you that didn't qualify... 🧐

Crushing WheelChairs, Premiere of the Movie in the SF Bay Area POOR Magazine wraphome.org/2025/11/03/c...

Millions of people are struggling to make ends meet as SNAP benefits are scheduled to expire on Saturday, November 1, and healthcare premiums are set to double or in some cases, triple. www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

oh boy! about putting together an experience to build homes to end homelessness, will that break the immersion ...

HOMELESSNESS - How the f!@# do we got here? part 2 read more: wraphome.org/what/without...

Whether it’s the local, state, or the federal government – sweeping homeless encampments and ticketing and arresting people who can’t afford a place to live, won’t solve homelessness – it only compounds the crisis for everyone. vocal-tx.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/mail...

After years of having their belongings destroyed by city workers while homeless in SF, Apple Cronk and her partner fought back through the courts. Their victory now protects ALL unhoused San Franciscans from routine property destruction. Read Apple's story here: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

The Coalition on Homelessness has settled a lawsuit challenging San Francisco's practice of throwing away unhoused people’s property during encampment sweeps. The settlement requires SF to follow its bag-and-tag policy and establishes strong accountability and oversight measures.

If many of HUD’s low-income housing tenants do not recertify their housing contracts in a short period of time with income verification documents, they may end up losing their housing subsidies, resulting in becoming unhoused, or homeless. www.indybay.org/newsitems/20...

The Trump administration is making good on threats to fire federal workers during the government shutdown, as employees across several agencies began receiving layoff notices late Friday afternoon. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

HOMELESSNESS - How the f!@# do we got here? wraphome.org//wp-content/...

Don't forget to read the report by Housekeys Action Network Denver youtu.be/4rNY334-9xM?...

BREAKING News! HAND Report on criminalization in Denver Read HAND’s report, and the police data it's based on, exposing Denver Mayor Johnston's emphasis on enforcement throughout his term. #HousekeysActionNetworkDenver #stopthesweeps conta.cc/4gVlomj

Who is San Francisco Building For? Key Finding #1: The City is over-building housing most San Franciscans cannot afford. www.peoplepowermedia.org/ppm-report

Street Sheet Latest Issue is out! mailchi.mp/cohsf/street...

Denver, CO. Exposing excessive police ticketing of anti-houseless crimes under Mayor Johnston’s administration Press Conference October 4, 1pm Plaza 16th St & Arapahoe St. wraphome.org/2025/10/02/d...

el presupuesto nacional es un tema muy técnico que requiere debate entre políticos de los dos partidos. Pero el director de HUD contra argumentó que no hay suficientes tractores en el país para cosechar las hectáreas de reata que le importa sus opiniones. www.politico.com/live-updates...

the issue is that homeless programs are driven by public relations & local policing because not matter the circumstance that person will continue without housing if the data only shows the results you want others to see streetsensemedia.org/article/data...

Exposing excessive police ticketing of anti-houseless crimes under Mayor Johnston’s administration Press Conference See this Instagram video by @housekeysactionnetworkdenver www.instagram.com/reel/DPR7kYs...

Denver, CO. Housekeys Action Network Denver New Report | The Evolution of Johnstonomics: From “Progressive” to Enforcement Obsessive wraphome.org/2025/10/01/d...

ICE deported roughly 5,500 people from California during the first seven months of this year, new data shows, reflecting a significant jump in removals since President Trump took office.

the longer a politician talks about ending homelessness without housing their term will always be define as failure ... www.kcrg.com/2025/10/01/t...

Winter in America | Things to know about federal law enforcement activity in Portland, Chicago, Memphis and more! Read conta.cc/3HX73Zv

Some of these same members of Oakland City Council seemed surprised when dozens of residents, housed and unhoused, stood together against the Encampment “Abatement” Policy earlier this month. www.instagram.com/p/DPODCXsjq0...

Denver, CO. Anti-Houseless Enforcement Data to be Released! Oct 1st - WRAP wraphome.org/2025/09/30/d...

Cuts Department of Education funding by 15% Eliminates $1.3 billion in funding for: English language learners (Title III) Migrant students (Title I-C) Consolidates 18 funding streams (e.g., rural schools, civics education, homeless students) from $6.5B to $2B www.npr.org/2025/09/26/n...

more information wraphome.org/what/without...

when government officials are PR experts on messaging rather than working to fund solutions... Operation SAFE. The initiative, an acronym for Swift Action for Families Everywhere, aims to restore order and safety by clearing homeless encampments, trash... www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...

My short film, ‘I am Gustavo’, is publicly available for the first time. Gustavo Otzoy, Guatemalan immigrant and friend, was one of 200 unhoused residents who were forcibly evicted from Echo Park Lake in Los Angeles in 2021. Watch now: vimeo.com/1099912805

Friday, Sept 26 Doors 6pm, show 6:30-10pm At 1000 Acres/the Sandy River Delta, on the beach along the river. GPS: 45.544358, -122.383255 See this Instagram post by @thousandacresdefense: www.instagram.com/p/DPDmwbejgm...

After three years of litigation, we reached a settlement agreement requiring San Francisco to honor its bag-and-tag policy. This policy prohibits the city from immediately destroying unhoused people’s belongings and requires the city to store — instead of www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Changing the narrative! government escalates violence and criminalization of people living under extreme poverty based on the idea that "homeless people refuse services" even coining the label of "service resistant"

"We're excited to be putting this money to good use, and we're hoping to spend it as fast as we can and get it out into the community and build and expand affordable housing for our area,” www.wusf.org/economy-busi...

Rebecca Livengood, a Washington attorney, said the administration abandoned a Texas case where a homeowners’ association was found to exclude Black residents using housing vouchers. www.housingwire.com/articles/tru...

Capitol Police officers combed through the Tent City homeless encampment in a wooded area off South Front Street, informing the remaining 20 or so residents that they had to “get out,” residents said. www.pennlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Donald Trump's edict to police homelessness in D.C. is more than an attack on unhoused people. It's also an attempt to roll back advances in the housing movement's struggle. www.streetsheet.org/trumps-attac...

They’re trying to silence Black leadership and take control of our communities. But Black leadership isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. Now more than ever, we must protect it, defend it, and grow it. Because the freedom we fight for is our own.

Our packed eviction courts, overflowing homeless shelters, and millions of households on the verge of being put out on the street are the result of policy choices. We once made better ones, and we can do so again. jacobin.com/2025/09/affo...

His justification for taking over DC’s police and flooding the streets with armed federal agents is that the city is supposedly overrun with crime and homelessness. He stated on Truth Social that: “The homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. knock-la.com/when-donald-...

Sacramento City Council can't vote down the sites, but they did approve, with a 7-2 vote, to charge residents of the tiny homes to pay rent, up to 30% of their monthly income after a 90-day grace period. www.abc10.com/article/news...