Dad. Spouse. Iranian American. Abolitionist. Strategy & Dev at @ij_action. Fmr candidate for Congress CA32. Poverty is a policy choice. Opinions are my own.
Apr 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
I believe that housing is a human right and it is past time that our federal laws recognized it. My #housingforall platform includes designating the unhoused as a federally protected class and providing a monthly income to the unhoused and formerly incarcerated. (thread)
We have around 66,000 unhoused community members in LA County alone. Instead of leading with empathy and care, we continue to criminalize and traumatize them.
Five unhoused community members die PER DAY. Poverty should not be a crime and it should not be a death sentence.