Civil Rights Campaign Goals

♥ Decrease harassment and unconstitutional police practices and harassment by parks police and sanitation workers of homeless people for being in public spaces

♥ Educate homeless people about their civil rights so that they can defend themselves

♥ Include the voices of homeless people in public forums to make policing polices Quality of Life policies

♥ Change NYC Quality of Life policies to include all of the communities interests, not only business and property owners


♥ Move the public debate from criminalizing homelessness to solving homelessness by addressing root causes such as a lack of housing affordable to all income levels, living wages and income and health care

♥ Create linkages on a national level of homeless people fighting criminalization tactics

♥ Change negative media stereotypes about homeless and poor people as well as people of color that create a climate that tolerates harassment of our community.
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