Housing first, not jail first! On Thursday, June 26th 2014, at 8:45am the City Council seeks to approve three bills aimed at criminalizing the houseless without any implemented alternative for housing. Link to bills, how to submit testimony, and talking points below. WHEN: Thursday, June 26th at 8:45am WHERE: Honolulu Hale 530 South King Street, 2nd Floor City Council Hearing Room. MAP: bit.ly/honoluluhale DEADLINE TO SUBMIT TESTIMONY IS WEDS 6/25/14 Join us in opposing these mean spirited bills, which have been subversively deemed by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell as Compassionate Disruption. Jerry Jones, the Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless stated in the New York Times that, Mr. Caldwell’s compassionate disruption was a pretentious phrase to dress up an ugly policy — sending the police to round up poor people isn’t compassionate. To REGISTER to testify in person, visit: www1.honolulu.gov/council/attnspkccl.htm To SUBMIT TESTIMONY, email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (Put in the subject header: Testimony in Opposition of Bill 42, Bill 43, and Bill 44 of 2014). We recommend that you please REGISTER online AND SUBMIT TESTIMONY via email. The extreme poor need Housing First, not jail first. Lets send a message to Hawaii lawmakers to stop talking about implementing low-income housing and do it. Link to sit and lie Bill 42 (introduced by Mayor Caldwell): www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-150456/BILL042(14).htm Link to urination/defecation Bill 43 (introduced by Mayor Caldwell): www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-150457/BILL043(14).htm Link to Bill 44 expanding criminalization to Downtown/Chinatown (introduced by Councilmember Carol Fukunaga): www4.honolulu.gov/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-150618/BILL044(14).htm TALKING POINTS: It is unethical and unusually cruel to criminalize homelessness when services and housing have not been implemented to address the problem. These bills would only serve to move homeless into different districts and to traumatize them through the court system. Failing business are due to other economic issues and not the homeless. The rise in homeless is a sign of a regressive economic system and it is unjust to criminalize its victims. Incarceration of homeless persons would aggravate our overcrowded prison system and waste taxpayer dollars at over $100 per day. Citation: ag.hawaii.gov/cpja/files/2013/01/AH-UH-Mainland-Prison-Study-2011.pdf Civilbeat stated that each raid costs taxpayers $15,000 each (not inclusive of storage and court costs). Citation: civilbeat/2014/06/nightly-migration-homeless-chased-from-waikiki-for-a-few-hours/.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:15:00 +0000
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