Redding Homeless Blog

From now until Christmas and the New Year we will change the game of the Redding "Hall of Homeless Shame" and donate desperately needed homeless survival gear in this particularly cold season here for our houseless population. Drop off donations to groups and individuals all around the Redding Library. Tents, Sleeping Bags, Blankets, Socks, Tarps, Dog and People Food, Hot Drinks desperately needed ! Redding Coalition for the Homeless Invites You To Please Share this Blog link for this event Far and Wide ! Please Share and Join Us ! #Redding #California Help the #Homeless Library #Charity Event ! https://t.co/v0ccYqVpq1 #OpSafeWinter #Shasta #County #Food #Drive #Donate #Donations #Christians #Church #Christ #SundayThoughts pic.twitter.com/ohGw0qi0pp — Redding Homeless (@ReddingHomeless) December 15, 2019

WoW ! Congratulations Redding California ! Washington DC National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty has identified seven especially harmful policies and has included Redding California in its NATIONAL HALL OF SHAME in its Housing not Handcuffs 2019 Report ! "The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (Law Center) is the only national organization dedicated to using the power of the law to end and prevent homelessness. The Law Center works to expand access to affordable housing, meet the immediate and long-term needs of those who are homeless or at risk, and strengthen the social safety-net through policy advocacy, public education, impact litigation, and legal training and support.  The Law Center recognizes that communities struggle with difficult policy choices over how to reduce homelessness and often pursue a combination of good (constructive) and bad (destructive) policies. Rather than call out individual governments for being the best or worst,...

"Whether You Like It Or Not" These are chilling words from California Governor Gavin Newsom coming back to haunt the poor and disenfranchised homeless of Redding and the rest of the state of California. Now Governor Newsom says changes are coming for the state's prison and jail system, and it looks like he has been working on it for quite some time. "I have spent the last six or so months, not a gross exaggeration, assembled a team of experts to look at re-imagining a 21st century criminal justice system." "So we're looking at step down facilities." So one might ask is the recent firestorm of controversy directed at Redding Mayor Julie Winter and the idea of forced incarceration of homeless and conservatorship of their finances part of a much larger plan to have facilities placed up and down the state of California with Redding the far northern planned facility? Is this a result of Trump looking at crackdown on homelessness as aides ...

Redding Mayor and Bethel Mega-Church Elder Julie Winter recently sent a letter to Governor Newsome asking the State to fund what is basically a concentration camp for the area's three thousand homeless people, where they would be forced to stay until they can somehow manage to become housed and "self-sufficient" Under this proposal homeless detainees would also be deprived of whatever meager income they may have until the government agents in charge are convinced that the homeless person will only spend their money on what these agents deem acceptable. The obvious illegalities of her fascist proposal aside, she failed to acknowledge that Redding's rental market is nearly non-existent, and that the local rental vacancy rate was less than two percent even before last year's devastating fires. Nor did she mention that the thousands of Bethel adherents who have flooded the area in recent years are - to a notable extent - responsible for Redding's severe...