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Almost No Choice: Homelessness and the Law

Almost No Choice: Homelessness and the Law

by Karin Drucker | Dec 4, 2017 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement

“Homeless people get almost no choice. Shelter system, sleep on the sidewalk, hide a tent.”[1]   Anti-camping ordinances primarily affect the homeless. Such laws implicate a fundamental civil liberty: the right to exist. There is a pressing need for scholarship...

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HarvardCRCLHarvard CRCL@HarvardCRCL·
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Thank you to @AaronMukerjee for this outstanding piece.

“As bad actors continue to provide loans that take advantage of low-income and minority borrowers, we must recognize that small business lending policy is social justice policy.”

https://t.co/kNAH07SmyO

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AaronMukerjeeAaron Mukerjee@AaronMukerjee·
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Wrote a blog for @HarvardCRCL about the devastating impact that predatory small business lending can have on low-income communities and communities of color, why it's a growing problem, and what we can do about it.

https://t.co/xEk5ZYx1W7

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NPRNPR@NPR·
20 Feb

#BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to state and local governments, thus limiting their ability to use fines to raise revenue.
https://t.co/ixVKsSkCgD

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kiseulkimMichelle Ki@kiseulkim·
16 Feb

At any talk when in agreement with the speaker:
Other people: snap
Me: aggressively knock on hard surface
Thanks @HarvardCRCL

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erinefwlrErin E. Fowler@erinefwlr·
14 Feb

Happy Valentines Day! Speaking of romance: here is a piece I wrote for @HarvardCRCL on how the new criminal justice reform act fails women https://t.co/4ChEYzSNd9

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HarvardCRCLHarvard CRCL@HarvardCRCL·
14 Feb

Barbaric Beyond Bans: How the First Step Act’s Shackling Provision Fails to Protect Women:
https://t.co/WjcP81kuKQ …

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nytimesThe New York Times@nytimes·
4 Feb

Around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, electricity was restored to the MDC, a federal prison in Brooklyn. But problems with the heating system, which are unrelated to the electrical failure, remain, and while parts of the jail have heat, many cells do not: https://t.co/0wLqzCsNJv

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monicacbellMonica Bell@monicacbell·
5 Feb

Great piece by @MartysaurusRex in @washingtonpost. I'd add that it's not good enough to just "allow" Black youth to dream. As I argue in forthcoming essay in @HarvardCRCL, Black youth are *entitled* to resources for dreaming big & this should be part of a new civil rights agenda. https://t.co/qE85F4Xukz

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