See the flyer!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKVpDhkSdnd/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
We as a Community keep each other safe and must hold our elected officials responsible for caring for the people in our community.
Please attend Rally outside at 4:30pm then at 6pm enter City Hall Chambers and fillout comment card and prepare 1 minute testimony on the below topics:
1. Rebuke the Responsibility to Shelter Policy, do not criminalize or force into mental/behavioral health treatment people who have survived the City of San Jose’s failures at building adequate very low and extremely low income affordable housing in accordance with the Housing Element requirements and RHNA goals. Especially, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous residents that are disproportionately unhoused and incarcerated.
2. Stop the Sweeps, they are ineffective displacing folks from one area to the next, further exacerbating the problem, and traumatizing folks, tearing communities and networks of survival apart. Furthermore, it does not end homelessness and it is a tremendous waste of our tax paying money.
3. Fund TRUST 24/7, enough funding for TRUST (Trusted Response Urgent Support Team), which is a team of people with lived experience, mental/behavioral health specialist, and social worker who assists anyone who is a having a mental health or substance use crisis and does not include an armed law enforcement officer. Call: (408)-596-7290 to be directly connected with a TRUST Team.
4. Protect Measure E Funding for Permanent Supportive Housing, providing people with housing and a team of support is what ends homelessness. Yes, we need shelters, interim housing, and housing that adequately matches peoples’ needs, we need it all but especially, permanent supportive housing so that people can have a forever home in this city. This is something that the people of Santa Clara County voted in favor of and that needs to be honored and respected and taken seriously as a solution and therefore, it’s funding not siphoned off for quick short term fixes.
5. Fund the Rapid Response Network and Protect our Immigrant Communities.
Thank You!!
Sponsors:
URG ( Unhoused Response Group)
LEAC (Lived Experience Advisory Cmte) at West Valley Community Services
REAL Coalition
Afro UPRIS
SV De-Bug
SURJ
SIREN
