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1402, 2024

Housing Not Handcuffs Newsletter: Johnson v. Grants Pass webinar tomorrow + new anti-homeless bills

By |February 14th, 2024|Categories: Latest News, Press Releases|Tags: |

Good afternoon Housing Not Handcuffs supporters,  Right now, the Supreme Court, Florida, Iowa, Nebraska, and Arizona are all debating if they can punish their way out of homelessness. Things like jail cells and tickets make homelessness worse, but sadly, too many people still think punishing people for being poor will end poverty. As the movement to arrest and ticket people sleeping outside grows, we [...]

1201, 2024

PRESS RELEASE: SCOTUS takes up Johnson v. Grants Pass, most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years

By |January 12th, 2024|Categories: Latest News, Press Releases|Tags: |

PRESS RELEASE National Homelessness Law Center www.homelesslaw.org Contact Information Jesse Rabinowitz 757-619-8957 jrabinowitz@homelesslaw.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 12, 2023 PRESS RELEASE: SCOTUS takes up Johnson v. Grants Pass, most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years [Washington, DC] - Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that they would hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass. This sets the stage [...]

1201, 2024

STATEMENT: SCOTUS takes up Johnson v. Grants Pass, most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years

By |January 12th, 2024|Categories: Latest News, Press Releases|Tags: |

STATEMENT: SCOTUS takes up Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years WASHINGTON, D.C. – (January 12th, 2024) Today, the Supreme Court of the United States announced that they would hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass. This sets the stage for the most significant Supreme Court case about the rights of homeless people in decades. At its [...]

1812, 2023

Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness | Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair 

By |December 18th, 2023|Categories: Latest News, Press Releases|Tags: |

Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness   Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair  WASHINGTON, D.C. – (December 18, 2023) Last week, The US Department of Housing and Urban Development released the Annual Point in Time (PIT) Homeless count, showing a 70,650 person, or 12% increase in homelessness. Unfortunately, the PIT confirms what we have been saying for years: that [...]

311, 2023

Law Center Statement on Today’s United Nations Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People

By |November 3rd, 2023|Categories: Latest News, Press Releases|Tags: |

Law Center Statement on Today’s United Nations Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses -- including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty -- in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil [...]

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