Today would have been the annual @UnitedWayKC Community Resource Exchange. Thousands of people experiencing #homelessness would have had access to housing, jobs and other resources. Hundreds of volunteers and services providers would have provided hope and help. #COVID19
We can’t all be together for my favorite day of the year because of #COVID19 but we CAN and MUST advocate for our unhoused neighbors.
1. This public health emergency builds on our homelessness crisis. Right now we need to make sure folks have adequate shelter and resources.
1. This public health emergency builds on our homelessness crisis. Right now we need to make sure folks have adequate shelter and resources.
2. We need to open hotels, dorms, and other spaces to unhoused people. In Seattle and throughout the country.
3. We need to support our front line shelter, outreach, and housing providers. This people are hero’s every day and especially in this crisis.
3. We need to support our front line shelter, outreach, and housing providers. This people are hero’s every day and especially in this crisis.
4. We need to make sure that people who are #homeless are counted in the #2020Census. The plans for this were woefully inadequate before #coronavirus and are now 🤷♀️
5. We need to remember that homeless people are just like you and me. Scared in these uncertain times.
5. We need to remember that homeless people are just like you and me. Scared in these uncertain times.
6. We need to do everything we can to make sure more people don’t become #homeless after this crisis. @GovInslee should extend the eviction moratorium and we need significant rent and mortgage relief because people without income can’t pay the bills.
7. Rent is too high. We need to advocate for significantly more federal rent assistance and income supports.
8. Locally we need to move forward w/ a Regional Response to the Regional Crisis of Homelessness. And it needs to be funded at the scale of the crisis.
8. Locally we need to move forward w/ a Regional Response to the Regional Crisis of Homelessness. And it needs to be funded at the scale of the crisis.
9. We need so more housing that is deeply affordable.
10. We need to elect a president who is committed to ending homelessness by investing in proven solutions and dismantling the racist systems that cause homelessness. #ourhomesourvotes
10. We need to elect a president who is committed to ending homelessness by investing in proven solutions and dismantling the racist systems that cause homelessness. #ourhomesourvotes
