Everyone, regardless of housing status, deserves the opportunity to participate fully and equally in our communities, free from discrimination.
Our city’s rampant criminalization of unhoused residents is wrong. Everyone, regardless of housing status, deserves the opportunity to participate fully and equally in our communities, free from criminalization. When our local governments criminalize unhoused residents, they commit violence against those most impacted by our unjust, unequal, and increasingly unaffordable system.
That’s wrong. Everyone, regardless of housing status, deserves the opportunity to participate fully and equally in our communities, free from discrimination.
But instead of meeting the affordable housing needs of all residents, the city is targeting, banishing, jailing, and harassing the survivors of our affordable housing crisis–unhoused neighbors. Instead of meeting the affordable housing needs of all community members, city officials are targeting, banishing, jailing, and harassing the most impacted survivors of our affordable housing crisis–unhoused neighbors. That’s wrong, and it hurts us all.
A home should be a fundamental right.
Not a privilege reserved for those who can afford increasingly skyrocketing housing prices. When corporate interests and the elected officials they influence prevent us from ensuring that everyone has access to a safe, affordable home, we all lose. We all deserve to live in a home we can afford, with something left over to invest in our communities, our families and our future. But for too many Angelenos, that dream is out of reach.
