HSNCFL

For 32 years, @hsncfl has been a valuable partner to @OrangeCoFL and the region, working collaboratively to address homelessness. Now more than ever, we need partners like HSN to help coordinate community services for vulnerable families and individuals in need.

Important story: Homelessness in the USA was the highest ever on record in 2023. In 2024, homeless shelters and services are seeing an uptick in people WITH JOBS who are living in cars, etc. Low-wage workers can't afford rent.

❗️The Supreme Court just ruled to make it easier to jail or fine unhoused people for sleeping outside, even when adequate shelter or housing isn’t available. This will only make homelessness worse. Housing - not tickets, jail, or fines - ends homelessness.

Thanks to the great team at @hpcfl for joining us today. Despite expecting this outcome, we are heartbroken for the people who will be penalized and further traumatized for the "crime" of being too poor to afford a place to live. #housingnothandcuffs

📣 Join Us Today! 📣 The Supreme Court's devastating ruling in Johnson v. Grants Pass, allowing the criminalization of homelessness, deeply impacts our community. Attend a press conference as we address this issue. 🕒 Today at 1:30 PM 📍 142 E Jackson St, Orlando, FL 32801

@CareerSourceCF @OrangeCoFL @soldiersangels @hfuw @IDignityInc @MustardSeedofFL @ALL4Literacy @TheWASHFound @DFSOrlando @CSCOrlando Proud to be a part of this important work!

Let's stand up for our veterans! 🌟🎖️ We're hosting the 2024 Stand Up for #Veterans #Resource #Event alongside our partners.🤝 Veterans will have access to a variety of community support and essential resources to help them get back on their feet. #SupportAndCommunity @hsncfl

(2/2) Derrick found stability in our Safe Haven Program. His journey showcases the impact of partnerships with @OrangeCoFL and @hsncfl . To learn more about the non-profits and programs supported by CIP, visit orlando.gov/cip

and that housing crisis is due to decades of not investing in the right things like [ending] structural racism. Where philanthropy can play a role is in thinking about a systems change rather than a program intervention.”

Criminalization and forced encampment are grounded in the idea that you have force the unhoused to get treatment--as if it's easy for anyone to get a mental health treatment or a recovery bed even if they are housed and have a job (It's not). (13/x)

"My homelessness is not b/c of my drug use, my drug use is because of my homelessness," guy told me in downtown DC last month. In 2023, I was in Missouri. The state had passed a law criminalizing outdoor camping, same kind of law being debated Monday at SCOTUS (10/x)

No one wants to be homeless. Full stop. It's terrible. Never really sleeping. Always on guard against attack and rape and harassment. The huge loneliness of having nowhere to go all day. The shame of asking for change and seeing most people walk by without looking at you (8/x).

Speaking out for #HousingNotHandcuffs.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan: If people can be punished for sleeping in public, what's to stop cities from arresting them for breathing? Both, she said, are a "biological necessity."

This is a raw video, so I probably shouldn’t be sharing it, but I love @PeggyBaileyDC so much, and I think this is the first time we’ve been able to interview her, so I could not resist. Full video dropping soon!

Please join us Monday morning at 11 as community leaders speak out against arresting people for the "crime" of sleeping in public! #johnsonvgrantspass

Critics contend #HousingFirst doesn't work because, gee, look at all these homeless people. That's like saying hospitals don't work because new people keep getting sick.

Today, the Alliance joined @funderstogether & @EnterpriseNow to file a brief for the upcoming #JohnsonVGrantsPass #SCOTUS case on homelessness. "Arresting people for not having a home is an outdated, unjust & historically failed tactic.” - @annymoliva buff.ly/49nVu5b

NO ONE should be shocked that there is now a homelessness crisis. This was the predictable outcome of 60 years of public policy decisions.