Policies designed by people with no experience or education in homelessness are doomed to fail. The problem is that these ghouls also don't care if their policies fail.

All last week, our volunteers have been handing out tarps and plastic sheeting to people before the rain while the Trump administration slashed housing funding. Opponents of housing first apparently want work requirements for people who are disabled, seniors, or both.

A Latino family in L.A. sued over an illegal eviction. The landlord's lawyer, Rod Fehlman, warned in an email that they'd "likely be picked up by ICE and deported prior to trial thanks to all the good work the Trump administration has done." The kicker? Every member of the family is a U.S. citizen.

Counterpoint:

If you're able, please consider donating to my friend Austin's GoFundMe. His father recently passed away, and without financial support, his dad will be laid to rest in a communal plot. Austin and his family have been unhoused for four years. gofund.me/ddeb8afe

We need help to.cremate my dad. Anything and everything helps. Reposts welcome. @eve6.bsky.social @murderxbryan.bsky.social @ahouse4all.bsky.social @evanlesliejones.bsky.social @wapplehouse.bsky.social @daveweasel.bsky.social @curlingprofessor.bsky.social gofund.me/24b466ea

Disgraceful. Without a judge's signature, landlords DO NOT have to comply with ICE subpoenas. “This is likely to increase the already existing discrimination against tenants based on race and national origin”

ICE has not slowed down and neither have the mutual aid volunteers in LA. If you can spare anything, please donate so our street vendors don't have to pick between paying rent and being ripped away from their families.

Confirmed today: ICE is taking unhoused people who are unable to produce documents from the street to fulfill their quotas. People too poor to have any documentation on them, unable to prove where they come from. A human rights disaster in the process. www.facebook.com/yaya.hernz/v...

If you want more American flags at protests, you are welcome to go to the protests and fly one. No one will stop you. You yourself can create that picture of tolerance and pluralism. But don't sit on the sidelines and tell a community under racist assault not to assert its right to exist.

Gov. Newsom is demanding that every city in CA criminalize homelessness. Knowing we don't have any permanent housing for people to go into. Knowing we only have 39 shelter beds per 100 ppl. Knowing rent is at an all time high and people are spending their entire checks on rent.

How about 100 million American renters vs 10 million landlords 👀👀

If a "housing advocate" never says a word about the inherent parasitic relationship between landlords and tenants you can disregard anything they have to say.

We are a homeless and disabled family trying to raise funds for motel rent, groceries, pet supplies, and storage fees. We have until Friday to raise rent. Please repost and donate if you can. Anything helps, folks. We are desperate. We were featured in USA Today linked below w/ donation options.

A new bill threatens to repeal bare minimum renter protections. Tell Congress to protect the 30-day eviction notice standard & oppose the so-called “Respect State Housing Laws Act.”

It's pouring rain in LA - so bad that people's tents are collapsing. In a healthy society, there would be warming centers every couple blocks, with vans driving around taking people there, but instead, there is nothing. Just volunteers giving out tarp and tents until we run out.

Fremont CA has passed a measure banning homeless people from existing in public - they'll face citation and jail. They also have criminalized anyone HELPING people living in these camps. We're headed down a dark road where helping your unhoused neighbors is prohibited.

With almost 1 million ppl on the streets, the priority of the new Secretary of HUD is limiting transgender people from accessing shelter. This administration does not give a single fuck about lowering rent prices or protecting renters or anything actually helpful to the poor.

Gave a tent to an older woman today. She was shivering and soaking wet in the rain. DV victim. Got almost beaten to death and escaped by climbing out a window at night two mos. ago, and can't pay rent alone. She's on a waitlist for a low income unit. Told it will take 6 years.

NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

I’m not sure exactly how the NLRB processes showings of interest and what document retention or recording occurs, but I’d be very worried about Elon Musk and DOGE potentially having access to petitions filed by workers seeking to organize.

Not only is Fremont, CA voting on an ordinace that makes it illegal to be homeless, but it also targets volunteers with jail if they "aid and abet" anyone who is homeless. They're literally trying to jail anyone who helps those with no place to live. calmatters.org/housing/home...

I think the MAGAs drunk with power are forgetting that the beurocracy was the compromise used to quell the rage of the organized poor. The NLRB was the alternative to your workers showing up to your house in the middle of the night. Anyways a book recc for no particular reason.

What happened to Cornelius Taylor? “father, son, brother, and beloved community member” - @atlantajustice.bsky.social We knew Atlanta police bulldozed encampments, again — “the only shelter many have” And now his family has the coroner’s report So you decide. www.11alive.com/article/news...

This is WIC, food stamps, Section 8, senior/veteran housing, Medicare/caid. People - elderly folks, veterans, BABIES - will literally be evicted, go without medical treatment, and go hungry over this temper tantrum. He's playing with the lives of people like they're nothing.

Any immigration attorney friends who would want to help me draft up a know your rights/update flyer relevant to undocumented unhoused people? 🙏❤️

Here are the looters everyone has been looking for. And they've been looting the Los Angeles working class for a long long time. www.salon.com/2025/01/21/e...

Please support if you can:

In the midst of all this chaos, the city of LA is still conducting sweeps against our unhoused neighbors. Ppl are asking us for a replacement tent and a dog leash while it's literally raining ash bcs the city took their only shelter away during this inferno. I am so disgusted.

Ktown for all volunteers will be distributing masks and replacing collapsed tents and tarp. If you'd like to support our work: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/... Every dollar goes to hygiene and survival supplies that will be handed to someone in need.

We are a homeless, disabled family with two pets. We are in dire need of some help raising motel rent for the holidays. Please consider donating anything you can spare and reposting, which is free! Please, please, please help us stay off the street this Christmas. gofund.me/7bed5ed8

The winter shelter hotline in LA is now just an automated message announcing that all shelters are full and that all motel vouchers have all been spent 😔

Daniel Penny choked a man to death for "loudly complaining" about being hungry + thirsty. A judge said that even a manslaughter charge was too much, yet again affirming what we already know - that the life of people who don't have a place to live in this country is disposable.

My favorite tagger in LA is the Epilepsy Awareness tagger who I'm guessing might also be the Breast Cancer Awareness tagger but if they're not the same person they should hang out

It's illegal to sleep outside, it's illegal to sleep in a car. But also we have no shelter for them and the little we do have will now kick you out sooner. Absolute hell. Absolute depraved cruelty. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/c...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

I regularly ask ppl what items have been thrown away during sweeps and this week they've said: Family pictures of dead relatives, housing waitlist paperwork, ID, a phone book with the numbers of family they don't know by heart, cash they were saving for an apartment deposit.

Sadly, we see the same thing every Thanksgiving season. Piles and piles of food that an unhoused person is unlikely to be able to cook left outside on the ground near tents but not handed to anyone directly - so only the rats will eat it.

Police in Florida accused a 12-year-old of lying about sexual abuse. She was sentenced to 1 year of community service, and had to write apology letters to her abuser and a cop, so she took matters into her own hands and recorded the abuse. This is so infuriating. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

If you want to donate to a good cause that will directly hand survival supplies to people on the streets of LA you can V*nmo: Ktownforall. During this cold snap, it's going to a lot of tents and sleeping bags. 💜❤️

MSNBC being exposed as a bunch of narcissistic grifters who only care about their ratings is one of the more positive things to come out of the last couple weeks.

when I'm sad I go to Griffith Park and pick up trash and cuss out smokers under my breath every time I find a cigarette butt

Idk what people think happens when you report an encampment, but they don't get any help. They get beat by police. They get fined and their tents, food, blankets, IDs, ashes of their loved ones, medicines, etc. thrown away. They get more traumatized + desperate than before.

My new article for Welcome To Hell World w @lukeoneil47.bsky.social . No politician is coming to save us, not even Newsom. www.welcometohellworld.com/punishment-o...

100 people showed up to oppose the opening of a warming center. Not a shelter. Not housing. A temporary warm room. A room that only opens while the weather is °18 or below, and that is closed when it gets warmer than that. How fucking disgusting. www.ksl.com/article/5118...

PLEASE SHARE: Los Angeles - it's getting cold at night. Each year more unhoused people die of hypothermia in LA than NY and SF combined. Please help us save lives by donating CLEAN blankets to our blanket drive THIS SATURDAY 11/16. 💜❤️

The City of Irvine prevented a shelter from being built because it would "attract the homeless" AND it is making it easier to arrest them because they're on the street and have nowhere to go. Truly fucking evil. voiceofoc.org/2024/11/irvi...

Absolutely heartbroken. Children get their values from adults. Adults and government officials constantly demonizing unhoused people as lazy, degenerate, dangerous failures - has violent consequences. Teach your kids to be kind + that most of us are a paycheck away from this.