🏚🏕🏘Unhoused Tenants Against Carceral Housing (u.t.a.c.h.) 🔑🗝🚪
Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2021
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We are a grassroots organization run by and for unhoused Angelenos. Facing harrassment and discrimination in Project Room Key, we came together collectively and made these demands:
utach.org/demands
New bill would ban mandatory evictions for tenants accused of a crime
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Justice for Tyre Nichols. Justice for Tortuguita. Justice for Keenan Anderson. We will not be intimidated by LAPD spreading lies and misinformation. We stand with Black Lives Matter, land defenders, and abolitionist movements everywhere.
LAHSA appoints new CEO. Heidi Marston resigned over low salaries putting outreach workers at risk of homelessness themselves.
On Monday morning, LAHSA (Los Angeles Homeless Authority Services) will conduct a special meeting with two items on the agenda: an executive change of title from Executive Director to Chief Executive Officer and appointing Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellu… westsidecurrent.com/news/dr-…
I have a question? What did they accomplish by mamhandling and arresting her? I mean they wasted all those precious seconds on NOT getting to the actual DV call. Bullies! knock-la.com/west-hollywood-…
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Overwhelmingly, unhoused people experience the most targeted and systemic violence at the hands of housed people.
Murders of people experiencing homelessness are on the rise @CrosstownLA @amie_zamudio xtown.la/2022/06/08/murders-…
Shelters perpetuate a cycle of evictions back onto the street, where life is criminalized under 41.18. Shelters feed the prison industrial complex. Conditions are unsafe. medium.com/@UTACH/shelter-li…
Karen Bass declaring a state of emergency over homelessness is an emergency in itself. This most recent appointment is further evidence that she is going to gentrify the majority of us who can’t afford rent out of housing #canceltheolympics
Conservatorship means that unhoused will not have the right to determine what happens to their bodies. CARE court is a carceral piece of legislation that reinforces stigma against the unhoused and what people experience in shelters and on the street.
Whats happening in NYC is similar to what’s happening with CARE court in California. The state is implementing a plan for mass conservatorship with no plans for housing.
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Whats happening in NYC is similar to what’s happening with CARE court in California. The state is implementing a plan for mass conservatorship with no plans for housing.
Unhoused people are as diverse as anyone. The best advice I can give is create community agreements. Identify the areas where people want to get involved. Make sure there is understanding of the necessity of abolition and harm reduction. Create a unity statement from there.
Despite the criminalization of living outside unhoused people experience under 41.18, it is remarkably difficult to get a shelter bed. Unhoused people need to get a referral for a shelter bed from an access center, including an authorization letter verifying their homelessness.
Oh, and we observed as MOF built a playground right over where violence happened against one of our people. A shooting the LAPD did not investigate. Why? Because someone shot an unhoused man. This is in the northwest corner of the park. It should be a place of remembrance.
We continue to take care of us to this day. The struggle has continued far past that one night. It has extended to every corner where our community exists. We need to keep defending us because we have no place else to go. Organizing community self defense and medical resources.
Our community continued to be harassed by CALTRANS waging war on the ditches where unhoused tenants evicted from Project Roomkey sought refuge from the targeted NIMBY violence.
The community didn’t end when LAPD evicted us. Conditions on the street became worse as our showers were taken away. This was the epitome of violence.
Respectfully, it wasn’t safe. We were under surveillance by Urban Alchemy and LAHSA. The majority of the violence was perpetuated by housed people perpetuating violence against unhoused people. Police don’t respond to crimes against the unhoused. We did our best to support us.
