This article was originally published byIn These Times, a magazine about labor and social movements.
In the month since he was finally awarded a permanent housing voucher, hes felt his anxiety abating.
Its hard for me to get across just how counterproductive these sweeps are.
A person walks past an encampment of homeless people in the Skid Row community on July 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama/Getty Images
In 2022,just 21 affordable apartments were availablefor every 100 extremely low-income households.
The group made the same case in an amicus brief to theSupreme Courtthis year.
Vice presidential candidate J.D.
It also financially punishes cities with higher-than-average rates of homelessness and redirects funding for permanent housing to short-term shelters.
The Cicero Institute did not respond to a request for comment.
FEDERAL ACTION TO END homelessness wasonce a bipartisan affair.
Austin housing activistslaunched a campaignto repeal the ordinance.
Afterthreatening to dispatchstate troopers, Abbottended up deployingthe state transportation department to remove personal belongings from highway underpasses.
After relocating from California to Texas the same year, Lonsdale quickly made inroads in Abbott-world.
The state camping ban passed and Lonsdales group took Abbotts playbook on the road.
Those surveyed reported an average of 21 police contacts and seven jail visits during the previous six months.
This year, Florida, Kentucky, and Oklahoma adopted legislation enacting the Cicero Institutes preferred measures.
But that decline is disputed.
Its notoriously difficult to say how many people are experiencing homelessness at any given moment.
Meanwhile, this spring, Florida passed legislation hailed byLonsdaleas a homelessness revolution.
Smith sees the issues of fighting criminalization and building tenant power as deeply intertwined.
When the common issue in all of this is theres not enough affordable housing for everyone who needs it.
