May 15, 2024

Tracking violent attacks against people who are experiencing homelessness

The National Coalition for the Homeless  has released its latest report on violence against people who are unhoused, covering attacks reported in 2020 through 2022.

This release comes on the heals of oral arguments in the Johnson v. Grants Pass case, and at the same time as the U.S. Park Service and the Washington, DC government plan to displace up to 100 vulnerable and unhoused residents of the nation's capital. 

The ordinances our communities are enacting that ticket and fine things like sleeping outdoors, as well as encampment raids and displacement, fault individuals for societal failings. This criminalization of homelessness, combined with our severe lack of affordable housing, creates a cycle of dehumanization and victimization of people who experience homelessness.  

Since 1999, we have documented nearly 2000 attacks on people who are unhoused. There were 15 incidents documented in Oregon in 2022 alone, a fact that we believe exemplifies the connection between criminalization of homelessness and the dehumanization and victimization of people who are unhoused. 

Housing ends homelessness, and we should protect and assist our neighbors without homes!

Please click below for more:

National Coalition for the Homeless

2201 P St NW,
Washington, DC 20037

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