NOTE BY NORSE: I don’t think it requires a great deal of “research” to establish the obvious value–both to individuals trying to survive and to the broader community of vehicular residency (in the absence of truly affordable housing for poor people). When I hear the word “research” on homeless Continue reading
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Palo Alto Battle on Living in Vehicles Draws Nearerrer
NOTES BY NORSE: Palo Alto City Council is moving in an eerily simultaneous way with Santa Cruz and Monterey City Councils to bring up its own anti-homeless vehicle residency ban, proposing to reverse the unusual Continue reading
Monterey Crowd Defends Homeless Rights; Council Backtracks Slightly (CORRECTED)
NOTES BY NORSE
CORRECTIONS TO AN EARLIER STORY
I reported on a Monterey City Council meeting that turned back 1 of 3 anti-homeless measures being proposed for study several days ago. There were several significant typos in the story (“11 AM” should have read Continue reading
Monterey Crowd Defends Homeless Rights; Council Backtracks Slightly
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Bigots in Palo Alto Moving to Ban Vehicular Sleeping
NOTES BY NORSE: Palo Alto activists and supporters have successfully fought to retain the rights of Palo Alto vehicular dwellers to sleep in their vehicles on city streets–up to now. Stubborn activists like Tony Ciampi Continue reading
California Homeless Bill of Rights Update; local ACLU meets Monday
NOTE BY NORSE: The Santa Cruz ACLU has yet to endorse AB 5 (the California Homeless Bill of Rights) specifically, though the Northern California ACLU has).
Nor has our local ACLU called for the abolition Continue reading
Video Exposing Abuse of the Homeless Suppressed
A video of a Clean Team activist, supported by other Clean Team members, harassing, assaulting, and battering a homeless camper was posted for several days on a SC Patch article (“Fever Pitch – Interview with SC Clean Team Continue reading
Homeless Persons Bill of Rights Hits Another Assembly Committee Tomorrow (5-15)
Subject: [OSCMediaGroup] Homeless Persons Bill of Rights: Action NeededMuch support was felt at Occupy Santa Cruz’s general assembly on Sunday, April 22, 2013, for people who are homeless in Santa Cruz County.People from the Visible Sleepers’ vigil at main Post Office plaza shared their Continue reading
Expensive First Alarm Thuggery in Santa Cruz
NOTES BY NORSE: Often harshly critical of HUFF, Razer Ray can be scathing and incisive in his analysis of homeless-targeted Continue reading
While Santa Cruz library system cracks down, North Carolina takes a different road
NOTE BY NORSE: At of the HUFF hat to John Colby for this story. What a contrast with the Santa Cruz library system. Santa Cruz County anti-homeless library policies have recently been stepped up to ban sleeping Continue reading