It is possible to resolve encampments in a way that listens & responds to the needs & desires of people who live there. This is true for people who live in oversized vehicles.
Read our interim report on a Berkeley City encampment resolution. 🧵⬇️⬇️⬇️
As anti-immigrant & anti-homeless oppression hit all time highs, it is important to reflect on the experiences of Latine ppl who experience homelessness. Proud of this piece in @plosone.org @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social #CAHomelessStudy
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A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
What would be the real world impacts of the loss of federal funding for Housing First programs? We modeled it: an additional 44,590 ppl beyond anticipated growth due to economic factors. @jabarocas.bsky.social @kirkfetters.bsky.social @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“There is no place for us” by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social IS one of the must reads of the year.
@nytimes.com & President Obama and many others agree too!
If you haven’t read it yet, please do!
Sending love to all. When will this end? How much is enough?
Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
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Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
The caveats: We recruited older adults who were homeless at any point in their journey, which biases toward those with long-term homelessness. (Had we found people right as they became homeless for the first time, perhaps housing outcomes would be better).
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
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☑️ The irony: Last week, the Trump administration announced their new policy to dismantle long-term housing supports---which will send many seniors, people with disabilities--back into the streets.
4/5
✅ The take-home: Homelessness is dynamic. People move in and out of housing. Housing Vouchers (for some, PSH, for others, simply a housing voucher) keep people housed.
3/5
✅ The good news: 80% returned to housing (returning to housing with family or friends was the most common)
✅ The bad news: Half of them returned to homelessness!
✅ What kept people housed: HOUSING VOUCHERS
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📢 New paper alert:
We examined long-term housing results among a cohort of older homeless adults.
Full article: Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
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First, they came for....We all know how this ends.
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Don't let this cruel up is down administration trick you into thinking that internment camps are compassionate. Don't let them hijack your frustration into a total abdication of rights. Don't leave those with the least power in internment camps.
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Yes--we are all frustrated with people left to die on the streets. You know how to fix that? Provide people with the services they need to thrive in the housing they need to end their homelessness.
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So why are they cutting the funding for treatment?
The irony of cutting funds for housing---that is actually at the heart of homelessness and replacing it with a camp on the outskirts of town. Out of site, out of mind. There is NO way to end homelessness without housing.
5/x
The irony of cutting Medicaid--which pays for actual treatment that people need (mental health and substance use services) to drag people out of site, beyond the legal system, with no due process. What "treatment" will they get? YES--people need treatment.
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The conflation of homelessness with mental health & substance use problems is a ploy to exploit your frustration and fear. (And yes, there is an enormous overlap, but it is bidirectional). We do KNOW how to treat these disabilities.
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Couched in the language of compassion, the proposal for relocating people who experience unsheltered homelessness is no different than internment camps of yesteryear. No civil liberties, no choice, no due process. Locked away in a place out of site. To what end?
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This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Community safety comes from having a healthy democracy, held in check by a free press...
Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone can pray to the whomever they want, whenever they want (or not)---and not fear being shot. Community safety comes from allowing everyone to live as their authentic self, loving who they want, how they want.
Community safety comes from ensuring that we prevent and control infectious disease. Community safety comes from ensuring that have agency over their reproductive choices. Community safety comes from ensuring that children can go to school without fearing being shot.
Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.
Always good to spend time with @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social — one of the best journalists working on homelessness. #Politifest2025
Thrilled to spend a few days in Ireland with @simoncommunity.bsky.social bringing the American perspective—homelessness is solvable. (Don’t fall into the mistakes of the US)!
In the last day, a Fox news reporter responded to his on air colleague advocating for mass internment of people experiencing homelessness by suggesting instead that someone (the government? Bystanders?) pursue lethal injection of them. (He is, as far as I can tell, still employed).