A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>microshelters are a good idea. *and* more publicly funded rent-geared-to-income housing is what's needed, yesterday!! </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-council-exploring-micro-shelters-homelessness-advocates-at-meeting-1.7581200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cit</span><span class="invisible">y-council-exploring-micro-shelters-homelessness-advocates-at-meeting-1.7581200</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DignityForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DignityForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
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emeritrix<p>Portland spent $724 million in 2024 on houseless services.</p><p>There are about 12,000 houseless people in the Portland Metro area. Round that up to 15,000, and that's over $48,000 per person. </p><p>But instead of everyone having a place to live with that ~$50,000 per person, houseless people are being churned through punitive shelters and sweeps and jails and fines, because developers and plutocrats and 'investors' are making money by inflating housing prices and punishing the poor.<br>(Portland has a history of arresting people for the 'crime' of living outside.) </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Housing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Portland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Portland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopTheSweeps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheSweeps</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.koin.com/news/portland/portland-metro-area-724-million-homeless-services-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">koin.com/news/portland/portlan</span><span class="invisible">d-metro-area-724-million-homeless-services-2024/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/05/homelessness-continues-to-rise-in-portland-area-even-as-increased-services-help-thousands.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oregonlive.com/politics/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">5/homelessness-continues-to-rise-in-portland-area-even-as-increased-services-help-thousands.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/06/06/portland-fine-arrest-homeless-portlanders" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">streetroots.org/news/2023/06/0</span><span class="invisible">6/portland-fine-arrest-homeless-portlanders</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>also: shut the fuck up, NIMBYs </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/councillors-residents-transparency-new-toronto-shelters-1.7580015" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/cou</span><span class="invisible">ncillors-residents-transparency-new-toronto-shelters-1.7580015</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TOpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOpoli</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>Toronto's unhoused population more than doubled in three years, reaching an estimated 15,400 last fall, according to a new survey. </p><p>9% of the total unhoused population surveyed in October were Indigenous, while 58% were Black. and Indigenous people made up 31% of people experiencing outdoor homelessness.</p><p>The number of unhoused people who identified as part of the 2SLGBTQ+ community has also doubled since 2021, with the greatest representation among refugee claimants at 31% and young people staying in city sites at 27%.</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/street-needs-assessment-homeless-population-toronto-1.7580073" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/str</span><span class="invisible">eet-needs-assessment-homeless-population-toronto-1.7580073</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TOpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOpoli</span></a></p>
P Gurgel-Segrillo<p>Thousands marched with CATU in Dublin today <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/CATU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CATU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/DerelictIreland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DerelictIreland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/PublicHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHousing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Dublin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dublin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/mastodaoine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodaoine</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLvTJg9NYA_/?igsh=MW43cTJvZTAwZGF3NA==" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/reel/DLvTJg9NYA_</span><span class="invisible">/?igsh=MW43cTJvZTAwZGF3NA==</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>oh no. fuck fuck fuck. </p><p>"One person was found dead after a major blaze at a homeless encampment in North York early Thursday, Toronto Fire says." </p><p>"Lorraine Lam, organizer with Shelter Housing Justice Network, said that "pamphlets are not going to do anything for fire safety" and the deadly fire highlights the need for the city to face the housing crisis."</p><p>""People's lives are in danger and yet there is no urgency to implement any change," Lam added."</p><p>"The public should stop "scapegoating" people who are unhoused, she said, and instead focus on the policies that leave people homeless."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fatal-fire-credit-union-drive-1.7575962" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/fat</span><span class="invisible">al-fire-credit-union-drive-1.7575962</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TOPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOPoli</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>STILL MAD AS FUCK ABOUT THE 519 "COMMUNITY" CENTRE GETTING HOMELESS QUEERS EVICTED FROM AN ADJACENT PARK SO THEY CAN HOST CORPORATE PRIDE PARTIES IN THE NAME OF FUNDRAISING 😡 </p><p>see all y'all queers with a conscience at Abolitionist Pride tomorrow 🫀</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePride</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>the city of Toronto cleared a homeless camp from a downtown public park - to make way for a fundraiser to help fight homelessness 🤡 </p><p><a href="https://archive.ph/OMItr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/OMItr</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/QueerCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePride</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
Ned Yeung<p>So long as too many people are harping about homeless people and not homelessness, nothing will change.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a></p>
Gigi 🍄🟫<p>Today in Jesus fucking Christ I hope your house burns to the ground:</p><p>The house residence around this encampment apparently came up with a suggestion to down all the trees in this park so that the unhoused people had no shade and would have to leave.</p><p>Up early doing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CommunityDefence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommunityDefence</span></a> which doesn't involve arson.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingIsAHumanRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingIsAHumanRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingNow</span></a></p>
Imogen <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/22/queensland-mp-calls-for-return-of-vagrancy-laws-to-allow-police-to-prosecute-homeless-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...</a>
This is what a <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HumanRights" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> abuser looks like. They’re blind to the systemic nature of poverty and homelessness. To the fact other laws of governments create those things. Housing and health are human rights. Poverty kills. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HousingForAll" target="_blank">#HousingForAll</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" target="_blank">#auspol</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23RaiseTheRate" target="_blank">#RaiseTheRate</a><span class="quote-inline"><br><br>RE: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vzhasc32fu4oaivv5s3iaqz2/post/3lsaoyahgbc2f" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vzhasc32fu4oaivv5s3iaqz2/post/3lsaoyahgbc2f</a></span><br><br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jun/22/queensland-mp-calls-for-return-of-vagrancy-laws-to-allow-police-to-prosecute-homeless-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Queensland MP calls for return...</a></p>
Imogen <p>Today <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HumanRights" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> Abuser Enabler Award goes to Ray Stevens, Gold Coast, Queensland MP, for wanting laws that allow him to prosecute the systemically poor and homeless for being homeless. This man is a blind and dangerous fool. This is cruelty. Make no mistake. <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23HousingForAll" target="_blank">#HousingForAll</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23auspol" target="_blank">#auspol</a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>"They [the current NZ government] could roll back their emergency housing reforms, they could roll back the reforms around the welfare system, which has made it more punitive on people, they could start committing to a strong public housing build programme ... they could invest in a strategy to end and prevent homelessness." but of course they won't because the cruelty is the point </p><p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/564850/nowhere-to-go-for-more-than-100-000-kiwis-the-worsening-reality-of-homelessness" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/56485</span><span class="invisible">0/nowhere-to-go-for-more-than-100-000-kiwis-the-worsening-reality-of-homelessness</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NZpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZpol</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>Toronto should bring back dedicated cooling centres for unhoused people, & delivery of bottles of water to them</p><p>"... without that dedicated infrastructure, we're talking about going to a children's splash pad, going to a swimming pool when you probably are going to be stigmatized & not allowed in that space, or going to a shopping mall where you may actually be profiled"<br>— Diana Chan McNally</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-extreme-heat-1.7565200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tor</span><span class="invisible">onto-extreme-heat-1.7565200</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TOpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOpoli</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a></p>
'(vidak) _(:3」∠)_<p>MUTUAL AID REQUEST: RAHU MEMBER IN NEED OF SUPPORT</p><p>Reblog via RAHU Western Australia RAHU members help members! Help Maya secure housing! <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/mutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/mutualAidRequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutualAidRequest</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/transMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/queerMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queerMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/weHelpUs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weHelpUs</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/housingCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housingCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://anticapitalist.party/tags/housingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>housingForAll</span></a> Alt-text: MUTUAL AID REQUEST RAHU MEMBER IN NEED OF SUPPORT "Hello, my name is Maya and I'm a mid-20s disabled transfemme artist. Unfortunately recently my home situation became untenable and I was forced to leave. For the first time,…</p><p><a href="https://moraleconomy.au/2025/06/18/mutual-aid-request-rahu-member-in-need-of-support/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">moraleconomy.au/2025/06/18/mut</span><span class="invisible">ual-aid-request-rahu-member-in-need-of-support/</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>the Canadian Street Soccer Association (CSSA), founded in 2024, is sending a team of 8 players to Oslo, Norway, for the Homeless World Cup in August of this year. the team brings together people affected by homelessness, mental health struggles and substance abuse</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/homeless-world-cup-canadian-street-soccer-association-1.7561765" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hom</span><span class="invisible">eless-world-cup-canadian-street-soccer-association-1.7561765</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HealthCareForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HealthCareForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SportForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SportForAll</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>Toronto affordable housing advocates marched alongside a giant cockroach prop during a protest yesterday as they called on the city to provide more affordable housing and spoke out against corporate landlord practices. </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/protestors-toronto-affordable-housing-demovictions-1.7561645" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pro</span><span class="invisible">testors-toronto-affordable-housing-demovictions-1.7561645</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreedyLandlords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreedyLandlords</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TOpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TOpoli</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>Doug Ford's government absolutely sucks on housing, episode 36177</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/housing-ontario-1.7558645" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hou</span><span class="invisible">sing-ontario-1.7558645</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ONpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ONpoli</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>more RGI housing like this yesterday please </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/deeply-affordable-housing-project-kensington-1.7553196" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/dee</span><span class="invisible">ply-affordable-housing-project-kensington-1.7553196</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
A-Dub 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈<p>"Kitchener Centre MPP Aislinn Clancy & Etobicoke-Lakeshore MPP Lee Fairclough are co-sponsoring a private member's bill that they say creates a housing-first plan. Experts CBC News spoke to say while not perfect, if passed, the bill would take important steps to really addressing the homelessness crisis being felt in municipalities across Ontario"</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/green-liberal-mpps-housing-first-private-members-bill-can-it-work-1.7548550" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-w</span><span class="invisible">aterloo/green-liberal-mpps-housing-first-private-members-bill-can-it-work-1.7548550</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ONpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ONpoli</span></a></p>
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