#stopthesweeps — Public Fediverse posts
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Welcome Home Coalition is an alliance of over 100 individuals and organizations advancing housing justice in the #Portland Metro region. On October 23rd, 2025, Welcome Home Coalition and Sisters of the Road released a groundbreaking report, Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise, which systematically captures the perspectives of over 650 people experiencing homelessness in Portland Metro on the housing solutions they want and need. Advised by researchers from Portland State University and #Oregon Health & Science University, the two-year study followed high ethical and academic standards and grounded in lived experience.
Finding Home clearly shows us what the people most impacted by housing instability and #homelessness need — through their own voices. Their message is clear. When given the choice, people overwhelmingly want permanent housing they can afford, with the supports and freedoms that make it possible to stay housed. Finding Home survey respondents ranked shelter as equally undesirable as living outside. We can’t afford to keep investing in partial solutions.We are asking the Portland City #Council to stop funding mass shelter expansion and the harmful sweeps of tents and RVs. Instead, the council should listen to the perspectives of people most impacted and put funding towards long-term housing solutions. Budgets reflect our shared values. Choose #housing and support, not more harm.
The signers of this petition urge the City of Portland and #Multnomah County to enact the following proven solutions supported by Finding Home: Lasting Housing Solutions Rooted in Community Expertise:
(1) Honor the self-identified needs of people with community expertise and shift funding used for encampment #sweeps and RV removals to eviction prevention rent assistance to stop more people and families from falling into homelessness in our region.
(2) Reallocate any funding currently left for congregate shelter expansion into rent assistance and peer support, and prioritize all future investments to ensure existing 24-hour shelters and day centers have funds for rent assistance, peer support, and case management staff to create pathways to housing for current shelter guests.
(3) Increase the number of permanently affordable homes quickly by using public funds to purchase existing apartment buildings and hotels from the private sector and convert them to non-market housing. This strategy has already created hundreds of lower-cost rental homes, permanently protected from market speculation.
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#StopTheSweeps #PDX Portland
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Got word last night from comrades that six people who were arrested for protesting at Seattle City Hall in February of 2024 have all had their charges dropped!
#SaraNelson #Immigration #Seattle #PNW #ACAB #AnnDavidson #Housing #StopTheSweeps #AsylumSeekers #KingCounty
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Cruelty is the point: while the rest of Boston hunkers down in air conditioning, residents of the encampment are settling back in after another sweep early this week.
Residents were told by DCR that a sweep was impending on Tuesday, and we were prepared to assist with helping them Tuesday morning. However, on Monday morning, a volunteer spotted the sweep already in action a full day before the residents were told to expect and prepare for it.
We quickly mobilized and had a team of volunteers on site within an hour to help with the logistics and labor of moving. However, many belongings were still destroyed by DCR, and many residents have been awake for days on end, making them even more susceptible to this week’s heat emergency.
We’ve followed up each day since—some of the hottest this year—with aftercare for the residents, including ice, extra harm reduction supplies, extra water, breakfast sandwiches, PBJs, electrolyte tablets, liquid IV, and a birthday surprise for a resident.
Our focus is, as always, keeping our unhoused neighbors as safe and healthy as possible in a system designed to abuse them.
What’s the point of the sweeps, if not cruel punishment for the crime of being unhoused? As one resident put it: “They just don’t want us getting comfortable.”
With these punitive practices and inhumane treatment, DCR and the City of Boston make it clear that they do not see the unhoused as human beings, deserving of respect and compassion, rather they see them as an inconvenience to be swept aside at a moments notice.
#SweepsAreViolence #FuckTheTentBan #WarmUpBoston #SurvivalProgram #StopTheSweeps #ServeThePeople
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Save the Date #Seattle April 6 time & guest speakers TBA #SeattleCompPlan #CommentParty #CompPlan101 #LandUse #HousingNearParks #MoreNeighbors #SocialHousing #TaxTheRich #StopTheSweeps #BuildTheHousing #RezoneSeattle Follow Jackson Park for All @jp4all for more info
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Save the Date #Seattle April 6 time & guest speakers TBA #SeattleCompPlan #CommentParty #CompPlan101 #LandUse #HousingNearParks #MoreNeighbors #SocialHousing #TaxTheRich #StopTheSweeps #BuildTheHousing #RezoneSeattle Follow Jackson Park for All @jp4all for more info
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Save the Date #Seattle April 6 time & guest speakers TBA #SeattleCompPlan #CommentParty #CompPlan101 #LandUse #HousingNearParks #MoreNeighbors #SocialHousing #TaxTheRich #StopTheSweeps #BuildTheHousing #RezoneSeattle Follow Jackson Park for All @jp4all for more info
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Save the Date #Seattle April 6 time & guest speakers TBA #SeattleCompPlan #CommentParty #CompPlan101 #LandUse #HousingNearParks #MoreNeighbors #SocialHousing #TaxTheRich #StopTheSweeps #BuildTheHousing #RezoneSeattle Follow Jackson Park for All @jp4all for more info
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Save the Date #Seattle April 6 time & guest speakers TBA #SeattleCompPlan #CommentParty #CompPlan101 #LandUse #HousingNearParks #MoreNeighbors #SocialHousing #TaxTheRich #StopTheSweeps #BuildTheHousing #RezoneSeattle Follow Jackson Park for All @jp4all for more info
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Seattle's city council is the most conservative in decades. That means we protest at their house, WEEKLY.
From the coming ShotSpotter roll out, no charges for Jaahnavi Kandula's killer cop, displaced homeless people and coming austerity budget to, you guessed it, fund even MORE cops there's never been more reasons to protest this inept council.
#Seattle #Protest #MondayAction #ACAB #StopTheSweeps #JaahnaviKandula #KevinDave
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The flyer from a food drive and fundraiser I organized back in 2016. It felt good to help others, but now there are so many more in need. Something needs to change. The current power structure isn't benefiting humans or the planet...
#OpSafeWinter #PortlandMaine #StopTheSweeps #Evolution #Revolution #Anonymous #GuyFawkesDay #BonfireNight #GeneralStrike #Unhoused #Homeless -
What actions are you taking this week and month around issues that you care about in your city, county and WA state?
What events coming up should other people know about?
#housing #transit #broadband #PublicBathrooms #PublicBanks #PublicLands #Politics #Elections #ProgressiveRevenue #Abolition #StopTheSweeps #EducationFunding #ClimateEmergency
How do you show up in solidarity with most impacted communities?
