#HomelessLivesMatter

Deborah Preuss, pcc πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦deborahh@cosocial.ca
2024-11-01
ToadlyturtleToadlyturtle
2024-10-13

homelesslaw.org/jvgp-scotus-de

On June 28, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson that cities can enforce laws that criminalize public camping and sleeping without violating the Eighth Amendment.

The 6–3 decision means that localities can fine, ticket, or arrest people experiencing homelessness, even when there is not enough shelter.

Joelle A Godfreyjgodfrey@ohai.social
2024-10-09

Washington DC mural #homelesslivesmatter

Painting of 9 people in different colors.  Men and women.  Below the painting:  Homeless Lives Matter.
ToadlyturtleToadlyturtle
2024-09-29

Individually, we are small, together we can help each other, towards healing a broken world.

That includes you. That includes me. That includes all of us.

ToadlyturtleToadlyturtle
2024-09-29

Where does love go, when life fades?

Into the murky depths, their soul wades.

Can they see the sun, as they're pulled below?

Are we leaving them in the undertow?

As the lights from their eyes begin to wane, do you not see it?

2024-09-16

Most letter writers to our local newspaper, #TimesColonist are quite conservative & cruel in how they think about marginalized peoples. You rarely see compassion in TC letters published, that Mr. Chris Holiday has shown. I don't know the person but grateful locals like them exist.

"Give more respect to those unhoused
I have been appalled at the increasing level of stigmatization and hatred directed toward the unhoused population.

I live on Pandora Avenue and frequently walk by individuals suffering most severely from our province’s housing crisis. I’ve witnessed individuals in crisis and using threatening language towards passersby but I have also witnessed verbal harassment of unhoused individuals coming from the balconies of luxury apartments.

Public safety is a two-way street, everyone deserves the right to safety and dignity. A 2023 study by the Ministry of Housing reports that 67% of unhoused individuals have lived in their community for more than five years and 23% for their entire lives.

These are our neighbours, and they deserve respect just as much as us who are housed.

Chris Holiday

Victoria"

timescolonist.com/opinion/lett

#YYJpoli #VictoriaBC #YYJCitizens #BreakTheStigmas #HelpTheHomeless #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpNotHarm #PovertyIsNotACrime #HouseTheHomeless #HomelessnessIsNotACrime #BCpoli #SocialHousingNow #HousingCrisis #RentalCrisis #BCNDP #YYJ #CDNpoli #Marginalized #VulnerablePopulation #Stigmatized #StigmaKills #SmashStigmas

Sage πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ πŸ‡±πŸ‡§ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡Ί πŸ‰Sage7225@mas.to
2024-09-12

Jordan - borgenproject
"One...reason for a low rate of homelessness in Jordan is its collectivist, tribal culture. A study...by Joshua reveals that the Jordan government is not responsible for solving issues of homelessness and...homelessness is remedied by family and community members."

Vatican City - Wikipedia
"Homelessness in Vatican City is a minor social issue. A shelter has been established just outside the Vatican walls and was opened by Pope Francis."
#homelessness
#homelesslivesmatter

ToadlyturtleToadlyturtle
2024-08-30
2024-07-17
2024-07-03

Driving from dentist, earlier. Houseless encampments on Pandora Ave.

Video audio transcription:

Pandora.
People need homes. House the homeless. House the homeless. In such a bourgeois, rich city and a rich country, people should have homes.

#VictoriaBC #HousingFirst #HumanRights #HomelessLivesMatter #HouseTheHomeless #BreakTheStigma #HelpDontJudge #YYJpoli #DontCriminalizeHomelessness #BCpoli #VancouverIsland #CommunityMatters #BeingPoorIsNotACrime #CDNpoli

2024-06-26

#HouseTheHouseless #HousingFirst

My dentist's office is 2 blocks away from the street encampments on Pandora in downtown #VictoriaBC. My dentist has provided a lot of free dental services to many of the #houseless folks who live in tents on this busy street. I wish everyone was as kind & compassionate.

#YYJ is a bourgeois government city & capital city of BC. There's so many empty buildings all around downtown core & also around the surrounding municipalities - which could be used as housing for many houseles individuals & houseless families.

Much of the so called new 'affordable housing' developments being built/built very recently are totally out of range for many folks who aren't even houseless. There's more than a few houseless folks who have either PT or FT jobs too. #StopHomelessnessStigma & #StopHouselessStereotypes πŸ‘

Please keep putting pressure on your local, provincial & federal governments to fund more housing for houseless citizens.

Please don't be cruel to houseless folks & help them, if you can. Almost everyone is only a few paycheques or one horrible life changing accident away from being houseless.

Be kind πŸ’— You should never be looking down on anyone with less than you - unless you're giving them a hand upπŸ™Œ

#YYJpoli #HousingCrisis #PoorPeopleMatter #BCpoli #CDNpoli #BritishColumbia #Canada #HomelessLivesMatter #HelpTheHomeless #BeAKindCitizen #HumanRights #BeAYimbyNotANimby

Tents along boulevard on Pandora St.Tents on Pandora St. at Quadra St.
In front of BC government social services building.
GailWaldby@bsky.socialβŒπŸ‘‘gwaldby
2024-02-16
NkesichiSichi
2024-01-11

It is so sad that people like myself who likes her space and her demons roams up when with people cannot afford to be in one place without the fear of demolition, high increase in house rents etc. Being a person who hates begging for help, I am tired πŸ˜ͺ.
If I believed in a Providence or the supernatural, I would presume myself cursed this instant.
. .

estheria 🌈 πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ 🌌estheria@mas.to
2023-05-05

The murder of #JordanNeely is another reminder that people with #MentalIllness are 10 times more likely to be victims of violence than people without. This is an instance of a mentally ill person being a victim of violence β€” a victim of homicide β€” as he was having an anxiety attack in public. How dare he have a breakdown outside his home. Oh wait. #HomelessLivesMatter #GiveHimShelter

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