Article where I discuss my research on Complaint-Oriented Policing. “Why you should think twice about calling the police on homeless people: Your comfort matters less than their safety.”
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A presentation I co-organized with the Coalition on Homelessness at the Local Homeless Coordinating Board about the city’s new unified command center to address street homelessness is in the news. Without more funding for housing, shelter, and street outreach - police and street cleaners are going to remain the primary responders to homelessness at a huge human and financial cost.
Read MoreThis evening I’ll be running an anti-property confiscation training in the Tenderloin. This will be a training on filing claims and recording testimony of unhoused people who have seen their property wrongfully destroyed by the Department of Public Works and SFPD.
Read MoreExcited to see this latest study out of Professor Jeff Selbin’s shop at the UC Berkeley Law Advocacy Clinic that I worked on in SF. The collective power of BIDs shouldn’t be underestimated in policy advocacy, and definitely not in the enforcement of these laws
Read MoreA critique of Matt Desmond's Eviction Lab that I worked on with a whole bunch of scholar-activists published in Shelter Force! Important lessons on the eviction crisis, politics of data, and community engaged research.
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