Addendum 1

Now They Are Coming for the Unhoused: Long Push to Expand Involuntary Treatment in America
Mayor Adams' plan to "involuntarily remove" unhoused people has met with backlash from activists & unhoused, who say it violates their rights & further entrenches systemic racism
https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/12/unhoused-expand-involuntary-treatment

Adams’ agenda provides for the “involuntary removal” & hospitalization of persons who appear to be both “suffering from mental illness” & “in danger due to inability to meet their basic needs”

Addendum 1 cont'd 1/2

* California governor Gavin Newsom signed Community Assistance, Recovery & Empowerment (CARE) Act into law
* legislation targets individuals diagnosed w. psychotic disorders, ordering them to comply with a CARE plan for up to 24 months, with threat of being forced into a conservatorship if they do not
* number of bills similar to California CARE Act introduced into state legislatures

#NYC #EricAdams #GOP #homelessness #discrimination #HumanRights #neofascism #CultureWars

Addendum 1 cont'd 2/2

* unhoused people criminalized for existing in public: camping bans ...
* compelled court-ordered treatment
* “Reducing Street Homelessness Act” Cicero Institute model legislation
* founded by Joe Lonsdale
* Lonsdale mentored by Trump supporter Peter Thiel
* Thiel, Lonsdale is co-founders of Palantir, secretive CIA-funded software company: migrant surveillance, predictive policing

#NYC #EricAdams #GOP #homelessness #CiceroInstitute #JoeLonsdale #PeterThiel #incarceration

#Addendum 2

Scathing Letter: New York State Criticizes Adams’s Migrant Response
Responding to NYC’s demands for state help, said NYC rebuffed some of the state’s offers; slow to aid migrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/nyregion/ny-migrants-adams-hochul-letter.html

* letter criticizes NYC for failing to accept numerous state offers of assistance, incl. use state-controlled sites it could convert to shelters
* also blames Adams administration for being slow to act

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/new-york-state-response-to-new-york-city-in-migrant-case/063777446eba209a/full.pdf

#EricAdams #NYC #migrants #homelessness #HumanRights

Addendum 3

Escalating Rhetoric, Eric Adams Says Migrant Crisis Will "Destroy New York"
NYC Mayor Adams does not “see an ending” to migrant crisis; renewed push for federal help
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/nyregion/adams-migrants-destroy-nyc.html

* escalated rhetoric re: migrant crisis
* claimed NYC being destroyed by migrants influx f. southern border
* does not see solution
* i.e. elected populism w/o solutions

#NYC #EricAdams #GOP #homelessness #migrants #discrimination #HumanRights #neofascism #poverty #AffordableHousing #CultureWars

Addendum 4

m/w in Chicago (contrast: NYC, above)

As migrants pour into Chicago, women-led groups make sure they feel supported
Community leaders discuss relationships needed to provide newcomers w. housing, other resources in sanctuary city
https://19thnews.org/2023/09/migrants-chicago-women-community-assistance

* Chicago declares itself a sanctuary city
* substantial state, local resources been allocated
* helps arrivals move to more permanent housing

#Chicago #homelessness #migrants #HumanRights #poverty #AffordableHousing #SanctuaryCity

SCOTUS Anti-Homeless Ruling Formalizes Segregation of the Poor
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112865148110226018

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

#USsupremeCourt #SCOTUS #GrantsPass #conservatism #GOP #fascism #homelessness #HumanRights #discrimination #AffordableHousing #precarity #poverty

Sweeps Don’t Solve Homelessness
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113676066558705617

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

[Canada] Homelessness skyrocketed in Regina 2015+
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113675138100708522

#homelessness #Indigenous
#Canada #Saskatchewan #Regina
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity

U.S. Homelessness Spiked by Jaw-Dropping Amount in 2024
https://newrepublic.com/post/189699/us-homelessness-2024
https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-population-count-2024-hud-migrants-2e0e2b4503b754612a1d0b3b73abf75f

*soaring homelessness in U.S.
* 2024: +18.1%
* 2023: +12%
* mostly due to devastating lack of affordable housing
* communities incr. anti-homeless
* so/self-called "greatest nation on Earth" 🤨

#homelessness #USA #discrimination #SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity #libertarianism #billionaires #inequality #WealthTax

U.S. Homelessness Crisis About to Get Lot Worse
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/02/the-homelessness-crisis-is-about-to-get-a-lot-worse
https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/homelessness-record-high-levels-hud
https://www.hud.gov/press/press_releases_media_advisories/HUD_No_24_327

U.S. HUD
* homelessness rose 18% 2024 cf. 2023
* 150k+ children exp. homelessness
* 140k+ people 55+ unhoused in U.S. 2024
* 1/2 older Am. live in places not meant for humans

#homelessness #USA #HUD #discrimination #SCOTUS #GrantsPass
#inflation #poverty #precarity #AffordableHousing
#capitalism #corporations #PrivateEquity #libertarianism #billionaires #inequality #WealthTax