John Raphling
@JRaphling
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🚨 @hrw urges US to end efforts to arrest & deport int'l students & scholars over political views & activism on #Palestine. @JRaphling: “The #Trump administration’s actions are an attack on free speech and threaten the very foundations of a free society.” https://t.co/mJZvXHCfKj
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Take a peek at @pplwillbefree’s written and video pieces! Most recently, @LexStepp and @JRaphling break down homelessness in #LosScandelous, the city of broken dreams, brought to ruin by corrupt elected officials. 🔥
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To be without a home is to be criminalized
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Harassing, ticketing, and arresting the unhoused is essentially a cottage industry for police and the court system.
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More from part 2 of our housing dialogue with the great @JRaphling about his incredible report on housing in L.A.
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That's led to a situation where we have plenty of, perhaps even too much housing at the high end of the market, and then for regular working people, there's a huge shortage. @JRaphling from @hrw. What's next? Listen to think it through.
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Victims of the recent fires will be subject to the criminalization policies that do nothing to solve the crisis of homelessness. @JRaphling #LosAngeles #wildfires
https://t.co/1NbOt3EEJk
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Victims of the recent fires will be subject to the criminalization policies that do nothing to solve the crisis of homelessness.
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I know its really scary for people to face the truth: A lot of the people on the street didn't make "bad" choices. Normal life things happened to them: Layoffs, death of a loved one, illness. That's all it takes and you're on the street.
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Housing in LA is musical chairs. 1 in 2 people struggle to sit down. 50% of households cannot afford their housing costs. 500,000 people lack access to affordable housing. People are left out.
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Sweeps of unhoused encampments are harmful and bad policy. @GavinNewsom should know better. End criminalization; support a right to housing. @hrw, @LACANetwork, @withouthousing Destroying Encampments Isn’t a Solution to Houselessness -
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Championing grassroots progressive politics, civil liberties, human rights, economic justice, a healthy environment, and a reinvigorated democracy.
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cant get enough 🔥🔥 @JRaphling
https://t.co/i2uTSCZcwZ The criminalization of houselessness means treating people who live on the streets as criminals and directing resources towards arresting and citing them, institutionalizing them, removing them from visible public spaces,
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"Rising seas are a crisis entirely of humanity’s making," warns @antonioguterres. Our responsibility now is to ensure equitable responses, including centering disability rights in planned relocation. https://t.co/jRY2QHMQJ2
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As sea levels rise, planned relocation – a process that involves moving entire communities from high-risk areas to new sites – is predicted to increase as a last resort after all efforts to adapt in...
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The @HRW report recommends investing in permanent housing, ending criminalization, shelter those with greatest immediate need and provide services for encampments to help people survive.
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Permanent housing, with supportive services if needed, (not temporary shelter) solves houselessness. Great examples exist. As California Clears Homeless Camps, Two Projects Point a Way Forward - The New York Times ( https://t.co/wIIHWBwesE)
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The rooms alone cost $115-125 per night per person ($3450-3750/mo). There isn’t enough permanent housing, so most people are either stuck in the rooms or return to the streets.
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The @HRW report looked at the IS sweep of Venice ABH (by Rose Avenue) in early January 2023. By May 2024, of 106 people moved, 24 had “permanent housing,” 47 back to the streets, 26 still in the hotels, 5 dead
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The results of the program continue along at about the same rate: 17.8% get “permanent housing”; 24% return to the streets; most of the rest stay in the hotel rooms. 40 have died. The average stay is 238 days. (Permanent housing may just mean a longer temporary subsidy)
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Now we have an LA Chief Legislative Analyst Report with Inside Safe data through May 3, 2024
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The new report by @HRW on criminalization of unhoused people provides analysis of @MayorOfLA Inside Safe program looking at data through March 2024
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The 337-page report, “‘You Have to Move!’ The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles,” documents the experiences of people living on the streets and in vehicles,...
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