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People experiencing homelessness, mental illness, hunger and frustration need and deserve compassion and trauma-informed care.
Officials and media outlets have instead told us that they are threats to be contained by force.
Jordan Neely’s murder is the inevitable result.
Officials and media outlets have instead told us that they are threats to be contained by force.
Jordan Neely’s murder is the inevitable result.
When those with the most power and the biggest platforms choose to stigmatize the poor and criminalize the desperation poverty fuels, they end up condemning our neighbors to death.
Homelessness gets classified under “crime,” but lethal vigilante violence doesn’t.
Homelessness gets classified under “crime,” but lethal vigilante violence doesn’t.
The solutions are clear:
Homelessness? Invest in affordable — ideally socially owned and managed — housing.
Mental illness? Invest in safe respites, OPCs, psych beds, nonviolent mental health emergency response, etc.
NOT repeated arrests, forced hospitalization, or murder.
Homelessness? Invest in affordable — ideally socially owned and managed — housing.
Mental illness? Invest in safe respites, OPCs, psych beds, nonviolent mental health emergency response, etc.
NOT repeated arrests, forced hospitalization, or murder.
But it’s more than just policy and budgeting: it’s the way we think, talk, and produce media about our neighbors living in abject poverty.
If someone is starving, homeless, and mentally decompensating near me, *I* am not in danger, *they* are.
We need to make that clear.
If someone is starving, homeless, and mentally decompensating near me, *I* am not in danger, *they* are.
We need to make that clear.
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