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Gabi Velasco
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(they/them) policy analyst
@urbaninstitute
. geographer. environmental+housing justice researcher. UT Austin alum. views mine.
Washington, DCdocs.google.com/document/d/1kC…Joined March 2018
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Andrea Ritchie
@dreanyc123
This is the work
@interruptcrim
’s Beyond Do No Harm network has been doing since 2019, now under the leadership of
@mariatho1
. We are building resources for providers & patients to resist criminalization through access to care with practitioners, patients, researchers & advocates
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garnier fucktis
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Healthcare workers: Do not cooperate with the police on this. Research the laws that empower us to say no to requests for information. We all have spent years in training to provide care, not to prop up fascism.
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Tara Raghuveer
@taraghuveer
This statement is false, ahistorical, and completely out of touch with the realities of today. The violence of our housing system is the outcome of decades of profit-first policy. We can’t rely on the profiteers to solve a problem that makes them rich.
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The Hill
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HUD @SecFudge: "We have to use the private sector as partners to try to make sure that we can build to scale. And the only way to do that is to make it profitable for them to build [affordable housing]."
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John Whitlow
@zhionny74
I wrote this as part of
@LPE_Project
’s symposium on decommodifying urban property. It’s about how law can be used to help build tenant power through a framework of supports for tenant unions and mandatory collective bargaining over housing conditions.
lpeproject.org
Law and Countervailing Tenant Power in the Real Estate State
In the housing context, a law to facilitate countervailing power must be geared toward encouraging tenant participation at the grassroots, building-by-building level, and it must be sufficiently…
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Housing Matters
@Housing360
Study by
@ChallengeIneq
finds elected officials depend on a promise of housing to try to justify the displacement of unhoused people. The “housing” promised is often temporary shelter, subject to exclusionary criteria & isolating rules.
housingmatters.urban.org
The Antidisplacement Fight in Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles
(Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake comprehensively analyzes the 2021 militarized police invasion and eviction of an unhoused encampment at Echo Park Lake in Los...
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Georgeara
@georgeara_
People that don't live in cities that are 100-miles to the border don't understand how heavily policed and militarized this area is. Like Ulvade, McAllen, Laredo, Zapata, all these cities under constant watch by state troopers, local police departments, border patrol, ICE.
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Read Wobblies and Zapatistas
@JoshuaPotash
Thread with resources for abolition and defund. We need to organize and act.
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It’s just so incredibly important to channel the righteous anger at everything cops allowed, at the way they even physically stopped parents from doing anything, into action. Taking money from cops and putting it into housing and healthcare and more would save countless lives.
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Chase Strangio
@chasestrangio
Here is what is going to happen. Today we are going to raise $3million for trans-led work. Ariana Grande is matching up to $1.5million. We are going to make #TDOV about action, investment and power. Go here, donate, share.
pledge.to
Protect & Defend Trans Youth Fund
Right now, there are hundreds of bills pending in state legislatures across the United States that target trans youth and aim to curb their rights. The impact of fighting these anti-trans bills and...
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Institute on Inequality & Democracy
@ChallengeIneq
“Project Roomkey didn’t need to be this way...Evicting people from the community and sanctuary they built up to then put them into a carceral system, with hotels set up like detention centers, is just a staggering failure of state policy..."
@ChallengeIneq
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LA promised housing for residents of tent city but dramatically failed, report reveals theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m
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Scalawag
@scalawagmag
1/ The South is home to more LGBTQ+ people than anywhere else in the U.S. Meanwhile, Southern legislators are pushing violent policies to hide this truth. Trans kids in particular are being threatened—and not just in Texas. 🧵 A thread on how to show solidarity in this moment:
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Max R. Cerrina (he/him)
@alephnaught2tog
Hey folks: I've got a spreadsheet to start tracking and keeping vague notes on resources where people can get more information and donate to help out trans folks and trans kids in Texas. Will try to keep this updated; please RT!
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Resources For Supporting Trans People In Texas
Places to Donate If you have more resources, questions, feedback, or suggestions, email me at trans.resource.spreadsheet@gmail.com! Organization,Donate Link,Main link,Location,Notes Organización...
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Erin Reed
@ErinInTheMorn
Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans children in Texas and prosecuting their parents as child abusers. He has also instructed all teachers, doctors, and caregivers to begin reporting any trans students they see.
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The Way Home DC
@thewayhomeDC
ACTION ALERT: Tell
@MayorBowser
to use DC's HALF A BILLION DOLLAR surplus to prevent evictions. That's right, Billion. With a "B".
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No one should fear eviction when @MayorBowser can use some of $500 million surplus to keep people in their homes #StopEvictions #DCSurplus #WeHaveTheMoney Tell the Mayor that we need her to use DC’s growing resources to prevent evictions⬇️ bit.ly/3o3Gc0w
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Jesse Rabinowitz 🔥🌹
@jesserbnwtz
How we treat our unhoused neighbors is indicative of our priorities as a society. Tomorrow, DC, with our tax dollars, will evict a large homeless encampment, in the winter, in a worsening pandemic, and with many residents not being offered or having received housing. Shame.
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SURJ DC
@SURJ_DC
How do we pay land or rent tax? If you live in DC, go to piscatawayindians.com and scroll down to the very bottom. Choose “Rent/LandTax” button and sign-up to make monthly payments. Don't live in the DMV? Go to native-land.ca to find out who's land you're living on.
native-land.ca
Welcome - Native-Land.ca
Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.
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Gabi Velasco
@grvelasco_
"By contextualizing [racial appreciation gap data] within a history of racism + property ownership, the authors show how under racial capitalism, homeownership does not provide intergenerational wealth accumulation for Black people the way it was designed to do for white people."
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Housing Matters
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Study found that neighborhoods with higher incomes experienced higher home price appreciation in majority-white & racially diverse neighborhoods, majority-Black neighborhoods do not experience the same relationship. urbn.is/2Y4ZQPK
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n th n - #FreeThemAll
@n_th_n_
There's not a humanitarian crisis *at* the border, as though it were a backdrop. The border *is* the crisis—it causes & creates the suffering. There's not a humanitarian crisis *at* Rikers—framing city council has used to victim-blame folks locked up—Rikers *is* the crisis (etc)
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