Discrimination
is Wrong.
Join us to protect the rights of every neighbor.
Read our Open Letter to the Governor from the Equal Rights for Every Neighbor Coalition.
Everyone Deserves
Equal Rights.
Discrimination has intensified as public policies and practices throughout California increasingly discriminate against people based on being houseless. People are targeted with harassment, citations, segregation, confinement, and banishment from public and private spaces because they do not have access to affordable housing.
By changing California’s anti-discrimination laws to recognize housing status as a protected class, state and local governments can prioritize building affordable housing and providing services that our communities need.
“ Inadequate housing and more policing do not repair harm. Shelters do not end homelessness. You cannot claim to end homelessness by forcing people to go to shelters. Instead, you are just moving people out of sight to satisfy business interests. ”
Downtown Women’s Action Coalition
“ As the crisis—which is an affordable-housing crisis—gets worse and worse, visible houselessness is rising. Local governments have become increasingly sophisticated in finding ways to discriminate against and persecute unhoused people. ”
Eve Garrow, ACLU SOCAL
“ No State shall…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ”
Equal Protection Clause, Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
No one should be discriminated against because of their race, color, creed, or housing status.
Legal protections for unhoused people are no different than protections against discrimination based on race, gender, disability, and sexual orientation.
You can help stop discrimination against our unhoused neighbors by supporting our fight to expand California’s anti-discrimination law.
Support State Legislation that advances real solutions to ending homelessness.
CALL TO ACTION: Social Media Toolkit for Open Letter to the Governor
Please use this Toolkit as guidance to amplify our Open Letter, show solidarity with folks fighting displacements across the state and country, and help grow the momentum and visibility of our Equal Rights for Every Neighbor (EREN) coalition. Create additional posts and spread the word! Otherwise, pulling from the document will be fine too!
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