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Friend,
Last month, the Supreme Court
handed down a draconian ruling that gave cities the green light to
remove homeless encampments from public land. This ruling essentially
made it a crime to be unable to afford the rising costs of
housing.
We’re told time and time again that
only the anti-Democratic Party can save us from a reactionary
right-wing Supreme Court. But California’s deep blue Governor Gavin
Newsom not only welcomed the ruling, he provided a friend of the court
brief urging this heartless outcome. Now he’s threatening to withhold
funds from cities and counties that fail to tear down the only place
that California’s rising homeless population can rest their heads and
store their belongings.
Lots of myths pervade the public
discourse on homelessness. People struggling with poverty are
dehumanized in our media and cruelly targeted by politicians on both
sides of the corrupt duopoly. Too few people know that 40% of unhoused
people have jobs. But those jobs don’t pay a living wage and aren’t
keeping up with the outrageous rent increases that have shot up as
much as 30% – far outpacing both wages and inflation! Many Americans
are just a paycheck or two away from losing their housing. It doesn’t
have to be this way.
Gavin Newsom and the
anti-Democratic Party work hand-in-hand with the reactionary
Republicans to “solve” homelessness through the criminalization of
being too poor to afford housing. Newsom is eager to punish cities and
counties that refuse to treat human beings like trash to be swept off
the streets and thrown in jail for the “crime” of poverty.
Jill Stein believes that housing is
a human right. Under Jill’s
administration she’ll take on the crisis of housing with a Homes
Guarantee, a plan to build 15 million green, union built public
housing units over the next 10 years, and universal rent control to
rein in the surging rental costs that are pricing working people out
of the housing market and into the streets. Jill is fighting for a livable minimum wage
of at least $25 an hour that will assure American workers are paid
fairly for their labor and can afford stable housing.
Friend,
can you donate today to make sure that Jill’s humanistic vision that
puts people over profits is on the ballot all over the
nation?
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