‘We all deserve a dignified home!’

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Homeless in Denver, Colorado.
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All across the country, as a collapsing economy drives more and more people into the streets, housing and homeless movements are finding common cause: the anti-eviction movement, the struggles to protect and expand rent control, and save and build (instead of destroy) public housing, align with the fight of the homeless against criminalization and for the right to housing. Independent tent communities are insisting on their right to exist and self-govern, while they fight for the right to real housing, whether the people have money or not. The common cause of all of these struggles is summed up in the demand: “We all deserve a dignified home!”
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