#HousingNotHandCuffs
Resisting Trump and the Supreme Court's decision criminalizing homelessness, mass actions for housing rise and spread across the nation. April 22 is a big day for actions. #HousingNotHandcuffs

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April 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The SPLC condemned the presidential executive order that attempts to cut funding for states that have implemented proven methods to combat homelessness and prevent the forced institutionalization of people who are unhoused. www.splcenter.org/pr... #HousingNotHandcuffs
July 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
June 23, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Billionaires get handouts. Homeless people get handcuffs. Make it make sense. #HousingNotHandcuffs.
Billionaires don't know how to solve homelessness.

That's why Cicero Institute bills don’t include any real solutions like housing or services. Instead, they push ineffective and wasteful policies that make homelessness worse, and make taxpayers foot the bill. ‪@invisiblepeople.tv‬ buff.ly/YtYIGFm
The Cicero Institute Makes Homelessness Worse For Everyone - Invisible People
The Cicero Institute seeks to erase homeless people through criminalization rather than address the root problem of homelessness.
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May 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This time last year, the #GrantsPass Supreme Court decision set a dangerous precedent for criminalizing people experiencing homelessness.

👏 The SPLC applauds @jayapal.house.gov and @frost.house.gov's introduction of the #HousingNotHandcuffs Act to ensure safe and stable housing.

#HNH
June 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
BREAKING: Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes. Criminalization doesn’t help anyone – we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts. #HousingNotHandcuffs

Our statement: buff.ly/JlcAsF4
Trump’s new Executive Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes - National Homelessness Law Center
Trump’s new Executive Orders direct states to treat homelessness and mental illness as crimes (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are…
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July 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Today, the SPLC's director of strategic litigation and advocacy, Arthur Ago, stood alongside allies 📢 rallying in support of housing — not fines and jailings — to solve homelessness!

A home is a basic human need.

#HousingNotHandCuffs #HNH #HousingSolvesHomelessness
June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Over 700,000 people across the US, including mothers, are sitting in cages because they can’t afford bail.

Support a Black mama in getting free in time for Mother's Day. Give $500, $50 or $5. → bit.ly/FREEBLACKMAMAS2026
#FreeBlackMamas #FreeBlackMamasDMV #HousingNotHandcuffs
April 30, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Thanks to @robinlennoxmd.bsky.social for her words and advocacy against Ford’s Bill 6 at Queens Park today ✊🏼
#hamont
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May 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The solution to homelessness is housing and supports, not handcuffs and jails. #housingnothandcuffs
August 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
We're excited to share that @repdeliaramirez and @repmaxwellfrost will speak at our national organizing call this Thursday. Join the call: bit.ly/hnhnationalc...

We’ve seen this before. Detention camps + forced treatment are not solutions to homelessness, or anything. We need #HousingNotHandcuffs.
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A year since #JohnsonVGrantsPass, 320+ bills that make it a crime to be homeless have been introduced. Every single one is cruel, wasteful, and makes homelessness worse.

Thursday, the #HousingNotHandcuffs Act will be introduced to help fight back. @aclu.org
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June 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."

Learn more: Read the @homeless-law.bsky.social's statement and join their #HousingNotHandcuffs campaign: housingnothandcuffs.org/join/
July 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Thank you to @jayapal.house.gov and @maxwellfrost.bsky.social for introducing the #HousingNotHandcuffs legislation in Congress today!

Click here to send a message to lawmakers to pass this important legislation!

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June 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The USA is going backwards in time.
Louisiana just criminalized being poor. Sleep outside: arrested. Can’t pay the fine or the mandatory “treatment program”? The court orders unpaid labor for the state.

That’s not a treatment pipeline. That’s a forced labor pipeline and Republicans built it on purpose.

Cruel and inhumane.
May 30, 2026 at 12:56 AM
We can’t let the punishment bureaucracy take root any deeper. These carceral “solutions” to homelessness are exactly what authoritarianism invites: control, surveillance, and erasure.

Call your reps. Support #HousingNotHandcuffs. Fight for care, not cages.

➡️ housingnothandcuffs.org/hnhact
The Housing Not Handcuffs Act
A federal bill to end the cruel practice of arresting and ticketing people for experiencing homelessness.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
ACTION ALERT: Tomorrow (9/10), Congress will discuss a bill that would put people in jail or fine them $500 for sleeping outside in DC.

Contact your reps today via bit.ly/STOPHB5163

In DC and across the country, we need #HousingNotHandcuffs #FreeDC
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
THIS➡️ "To build truly safe, healthy, and just communities, we need housing and healthcare, not handcuffs and budget cuts." #HousingNotHandcuffs
July 30, 2025 at 8:12 PM
TAKE ACTION: Demand Congress pass #HousingNotHandcuffs! Today, Rep. Jayapal and Rep. Frost introduced the Housing Not Handcuffs Act to help solve homelessness with housing, not arrests or tickets. Demand your reps support the fight for housing:
bit.ly/passhnh
June 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The U.S. will never arrest its way out of homelessness.

📣TAKE ACTION: Tell your representatives to pass #HousingNotHandcuffs! 👇

www.votervoice.net/NHLC/campaig...
June 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“Criminalizing being unhoused and using a police first, housing last approach does nothing to promote health and wellbeing.”

Policing is about punishing people for being poor, instead of offering real support.

Housing for all is repro justice. #HousingNotHandcuffs #CareNotCops
“I’m waiting for an ambulance. I might be going into labor. Is that okay?”

“You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”

Chilling body cam footage shows police detaining and citing a homeless woman who is in active labor.

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https://www.lpm.org/news/2024-12-19/pregnant-kentucky-woman-cited-for-street-camping-while-in-labor
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December 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
👏 The SPLC supports the #HousingNotHandcuffs Act introduced by @jayapal.house.gov and @frost.house.gov to stop the punishing of homeless people with cruel arrests and fines.

Read our statement 📲: www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

#HNH #HousingSolvesHomelessness
Congress Introduces Housing not Handcuffs Act
Washington, DC — Today at 3:30 PM EST, Congress members Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL), along with national and local homelessness advocates, will introduce the Housing Not Handcuffs ...
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June 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"A new Trump order calls for arresting and ticketing unhoused people. My state tried that — and homelessness just got worse." #HousingNotHandcuffs

Read more from Shameka Parrish-Wright of VOCAL-KY:
We Can’t Arrest Our Way Out of Homelessness - OtherWords
A new Trump order calls for arresting and ticketing unhoused people. My state tried that — and homelessness just got worse.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM