Take Action ‼️ On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in #JohnsonVGrantsPass, the most important case impacting homelessness of the past 40 years. The case will determine the critical issue of whether criminally punishing people for sleeping outdoors on public property when they have nowhere else to go violates the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits excessive bail, fines, and cruel and unusual punishments. Housing is extremely limited for gender-based violence survivors, often forcing them to make impossible choices between sleeping outside or suffering continued violence. Criminalizing homelessness will only increase domestic violence survivors' risk of violence, trauma, and housing insecurity. Here's how you can get involved and tell the Court to support survivors: 1️⃣ Join NNEDV, partners, and allies in DC on Monday, April 22: https://lnkd.in/exQe8rxV Dr. Wendy B. Mahoney, NNEDV’s Interim President & CEO, will speak to the specific dangers survivors of violence face from abuse, lack of housing and shelter, and inhumane policies that criminalize and punish survival. 2️⃣ Spread the word about this case: https://lnkd.in/evQebZKP 3️⃣ Find other ways to get involved: https://lnkd.in/eDTuUVmn
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Take Action ‼️ On April 22, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in #JohnsonVGrantsPass, the most important case impacting homelessness of the past 40 years. The case will determine the critical issue of whether criminally punishing people for sleeping outdoors on public property when they have nowhere else to go violates the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits excessive bail, fines, and cruel and unusual punishments. Housing is extremely limited for gender-based violence survivors, often forcing them to make impossible choices between sleeping outside or suffering continued violence. Criminalizing homelessness will only increase domestic violence survivors' risk of violence, trauma, and housing insecurity. Here's how you can get involved and tell the Court to support survivors: 1️⃣ Join NNEDV, partners, and allies in DC on Monday, April 22: https://lnkd.in/exQe8rxV Dr. Wendy B. Mahoney, NNEDV’s Interim President & CEO, will speak to the specific dangers survivors of violence face from abuse, lack of housing and shelter, and inhumane policies that criminalize and punish survival. 2️⃣ Spread the word about this case: https://lnkd.in/evQebZKP 3️⃣ Find other ways to get involved: https://lnkd.in/eDTuUVmn
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Let's talk about Johnson v. Grants Pass, a pivotal case heading to the Supreme Court. On April 22nd, the Supreme Court will hear the most significant legal battle concerning homelessness in decades. This case will determine whether cities can punish people for things like sleeping outside with a pillow or blanket, even when there are no safe shelter options. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/ea-C6R-m #JohnsonVGrantsPass
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Let's talk about Johnson v. Grants Pass, a pivotal case heading to the Supreme Court. On April 22nd, the Supreme Court will hear the most significant legal battle concerning homelessness in decades. This case will determine whether cities can punish people for things like sleeping outside with a pillow or blanket, even when there are no safe shelter options. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/e_qydRVb #JohnsonVGrantsPass
Johnson v. Grants Pass
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Let's talk about Johnson v. Grants Pass, a pivotal case heading to the Supreme Court. On April 22nd, the Supreme Court will hear the most significant legal battle concerning homelessness in decades. This case will determine whether cities can punish people for things like sleeping outside with a pillow or blanket, even when there are no safe shelter options. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gMAurhKi #JohnsonVGrantsPass
Johnson v. Grants Pass
johnsonvgrantspass.com
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BREAKING: In a historically shameful decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that homeless people are not included in the Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling will make homelessness drastically worse and impact the 250,000+ people who sleep outside each night, as well as millions of Americans who are just one missed paycheck away from homelessness. Arresting or fining people for trying to survive is expensive, counterproductive, cruel, and simply does not work. We are enraged but unsurprised that the Supreme Court sided with out-of-touch billionaires and against the poorest among us. To truly solve homelessness, we demand the Biden administration and Congress invest at least $356 billion in transforming approaches to homelessness away from criminalization and towards proven solutions. Read from CLASP's very own Jesse Fairbanks and what they wrote on the topic this year: https://brnw.ch/21wL1yb #JohnsonVGrantsPass #HousingNotHandcuffs #SCOTUS
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This is an important read.
BREAKING: In a historically shameful decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that homeless people are not included in the Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling will make homelessness drastically worse and impact the 250,000+ people who sleep outside each night, as well as millions of Americans who are just one missed paycheck away from homelessness. Arresting or fining people for trying to survive is expensive, counterproductive, cruel, and simply does not work. We are enraged but unsurprised that the Supreme Court sided with out-of-touch billionaires and against the poorest among us. To truly solve homelessness, we demand the Biden administration and Congress invest at least $356 billion in transforming approaches to homelessness away from criminalization and towards proven solutions. Read from CLASP's very own Jesse Fairbanks and what they wrote on the topic this year: https://brnw.ch/21wL1yb #JohnsonVGrantsPass #HousingNotHandcuffs #SCOTUS
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BREAKING: In a historically shameful decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that homeless people are not included in the Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling will make homelessness drastically worse and impact the 250,000+ people who sleep outside each night, as well as millions of Americans who are just one missed paycheck away from homelessness. #JohnsonVGrantsPass Arresting or fining people for trying to survive is expensive, counterproductive, cruel, and simply does not work. We are enraged but unsurprised that the Supreme Court sided with out-of-touch billionaires and against the poorest among us. To truly solve homelessness, we demand the Biden administration and Congress invest at least $356 billion in transforming approaches to homelessness away from criminalization and towards proven solutions.
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The Supreme Court's decision regarding balancing a city's right to enforcement with an individual's right to live in a tent on your sidewalk, is long overdue. As one of the longest running and largest homeless org CEOs in the country, I agree with the Supreme Court's decision to favor enforcement. Here's why: 1. There has been a dramatic shift in Public Policy in many of the western states. These policies promote dependency. Thousands of persons we’ve helped over decades confirm this. 2. Dependency takes root in seeing people as victims. 3. There perhaps is no greater visual "victim" than that of a homeless person. 4. Victimhood and homelessness go hand in glove. The greater the homeless the more dependency is justified. 5. Therefore, the homeless crisis is the result of public policy aimed at advancing a culture of dependency. In other words it is manufactured for the sole purpose of advancing a political ideology. Though the Justices fell short of calling it out as bluntly as I have, they did get it right!
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Today, the National Alliance of DFV Specialist Services - representing more than 200 specialist service providers, thousands of frontline workers and others working to end domestic, family and sexual violence across the country - met with Zoe Daniel MP, alongside other MPs and Senators in Canberra to call for an immediate uplift in investment and support for frontline specialist family violence and sexual assault services across the country. Our campaign Fund the Frontline has six clear asks: 1. A long-term National Partnership Agreement between state and federal governments to ensure ongoing and sustainable funding for all specialist family violence services across the country. 2. Substantial investment in frontline specialist sexual assault services to meet increasing demand and allow diversification of programs. 3. A comprehensive National Workforce Strategy, including a robust First Nations Workforce Strategy. 4. Increased input from specialist domestic and family violence experts to the National Partnership Agreements on housing and homelessness and the forthcoming National Housing and Homelessness Plan. 5. Stronger investment in First Nations services to support community-led responses to violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children. 6. A dedicated funding stream for women’s legal services, to respond to gender-based violence as part of the National Legal Assistance Partnership. We are calling on the Commonwealth Government to commit to the above as a matter of urgency - because no one should miss out on the vital support they need to live free from violence. Read our full statement here: https://lnkd.in/gxJRQPA4
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BREAKING: In a historically shameful decision, the Supreme Court has ruled in #JohnsonVGrantsPass that homeless people are not included in the Constitution’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment. This ruling will make homelessness drastically worse and impact the 250,000+ people who sleep outside each night, as well as millions of Americans who are just one missed paycheck away from homelessness. Arresting or fining people for trying to survive is expensive, counterproductive, cruel, and simply does not work. We are enraged but unsurprised that the Supreme Court sided with out-of-touch billionaires and against the poorest among us. #HousingNotHandcuffs To truly solve homelessness, we demand the Biden administration and Congress invest at least $356 billion in transforming approaches to homelessness away from criminalization and towards proven housing-based solutions.
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