Fighting to empower + protect the rights of poor/unhoused tenants across LA 📸 Started by @DSA_LosAngeles & @LACANetwork 🌹☀️ #ServicesNotSweeps
Jul 13, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Learn more about the failures of project room key. 👇🏽
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Jul 13, 2022 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
The Mayfair, a Project Room Key hotel in Los Angeles, is closing July 15th. Every time a Project Room Key closes, people are forced back to the streets.
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Jun 8, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Our last tweet about mental health crises had a lot of replies where people insisted you should call the police anyway. WRONG.
In 2019, more than 30% of LAPD use of force incidents were against unhoused people, who represent 1% of the population.
40% of unhoused people in LA are Black.
Black people are killed by police at 3x the rate of white people.
Disabled/neurodivergent people represent 26% of the US population, but represent more than 50% of the people killed by police.
Jun 8, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
WHAT DO I DO IF MY UNHOUSED NEIGHBOR IS EXPERIENCING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS?
This is a question we get a lot! Step 1: Do not call the police.
Step 2: if you're comfortable, ask if they're doing okay. It helps if you can offer a bottle of water. Determine what might be happening: are they trying to self-harm? are they experiencing a manic episode? are they having an overdose?
Feb 5, 2021 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
If we’re gonna talk about Tiny Homes, we need to talk about Special Enforcement Zones (thread)
Here’s a throwback to last year when Ken Craft, President and CEO of Hope of the Valley, spoke in a public meeting about how the presence of shelters increases policing of unhoused people and why that’s a great thing
Feb 5, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In San Pedro, neighbors have stated that a vacant property owned by Jerico Development LLC. plays the Barney theme song at all hours of the day and night and most recently this building added flood lights. Video taken 1/22
Video taken 1/27 at 12AM
Feb 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Olympia Medical Center is a crucial resource for poor & unhoused residents in Mid-City, but in the middle of a pandemic, its corporate owner is trying to close it.
Join @FrntWellNetwork for a rally today at 5:30pm at Spaulding & San Vicente to demand that they keep it open!
Correction: UCLA recently bought Olympia Medical from their previous corporate owner, but UCLA is still seeking to close it for renovations beginning in March. dailybruin.com/2021/01/30/ems…
Dec 1, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
As City Council votes to resume banishing and criminalizing Unhoused folks today, ~100 ppl living in Chinatown’s El Pueblo SECZ are being traumatized by an unexpected sweep, with cops. There’re positive cases in the community here. Blood on your hands @JoeBuscaino
City sweep teams told us they were on pause due to multiple COVID-19 outbreaks at the mobile showers they drag out at during sweeps (so u can shower while the city trashes your shit). Attempts to reach @LAHomeless abt consistent, transparent messaging to residents go nowhere.
Trans, disabled and unhoused resident Hal describes what its like to live in @MayorOfLA and @MitchOFarrell's harmful and costly Special Enforcement Zone in Hollywood.
