Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

SCOTUS Anti-Homeless Ruling Formalizes Segregation of the Poor
Supreme Court’s decision on homelessness echoes past laws & rulings dictating who’s allowed in public
https://truthout.org/articles/scotus-anti-homeless-ruling-formalizes-segregation-of-the-poor

* 2024-Jun-28 ruling: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf
* said it's not cruel/unusual to fine or arrest people for experiencing homelessness
* cities, counties and states rushing to step up enforcement of anti-homeless laws / enact new ones

#SCOTUS #conservatism #GOP #fascism #homelessness #HumanRights #discrimination

SCOTUS Anti-Homeless Ruling Formalizes Segregation of the Poor

The Supreme Court’s decision on homelessness echoes past laws and rulings dictating who’s allowed in public.

Truthout
Jul 28, 2024 at 4:51pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 28, 2024

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... SCOTUS' / billionaires' / far-right's demonization / criminalization of homeless.

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson

Homelessness is not / should not be a crime.
People have a right to exist.

Pushing the Homeless Somewhere
https://www.dcreport.org/2024/08/01/pushing-the-homeless-somewhere

* 630,000+ homeless in America
* spike in # of 1st-time homeless who have jobs, cannot afford homes

#homelessness #poverty #discrimination #PovertyIndustrialComplex #capitalism #PrivateEquity #inflation #SCOTUS

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 18, 2024

Sweeps Don’t Solve Homelessness
https://otherwords.org/sweeps-dont-solve-homelessness

* 2024: U.S. Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson
* easier for local governments to criminalize homelessness
* sweep: penalizing homelessness via crackdowns on encampments
* sweeps harmful, unproductive, dehumanizing
* instead gov. should prioritize safe, affordable, dignified, permanent housing for all

#homelessness #poverty #discrimination #HumanRights
#SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#capitalism #poverty #AffordableHousing #PrivateEquity

Sweeps Don’t Solve Homelessness - OtherWords

Instead, governments should prioritize safe, affordable, dignified, and permanent housing for all.

OtherWords
Show threadJonathan D. Cope, Esq.Dec 19, 2024

@persagen

The logic of criminalizing homelessness makes no sense. Fining a homeless person? It’s uncollectible and simply adds to the burden of the homeless. Incarcerate a homeless person? Considering the cost of incarceration (including the costs of law enforcement and administering legal proceedings in addition to the jail occupancy), it probably would be cheaper to provide the homeless with safe, affordable, dignified, housing for all.

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 19, 2024

@commonscapitalism Prison Industrial Complex. Involuntary incarceration, those deemed "threats" to themselves/society, to an outsourced (privatized) "treatment" facility.

Joe Lonsdale/Cicero Institute/demonization of homelessness
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113476849446929581

Poverty Industrial Complex
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113640503317799738

#billionaires #JoeLonsdale #PeterThiel #Trump2 #fascism
#CiceroInstitute #antiHomelessness #ModelActs #UAustin
#ChipWilson #Lululemonn #VancouverIsDying #propaganda #copaganda #discrimination

Show threadroblosricosDec 27, 2024

@persagen

there need to be options for people who do not desire to pay for fossil fuel and nuclear power plant-generated electricity in a time of #climatecrisis, and do not wish to see one penny of their money going to price-gouging land-owners.

people who live indoors could care less.

#camping

Show threadFrank HeijkampJul 28, 2024
@persagen Being homeless not, making people homeless should be a crime.