The National Homelessness Law Center is excited to share its newest report on the criminalization of homelessness: Housing Not Handcuffs 2021 – State Law Supplement. While the Law Center has tracked close to 200 cities for their laws criminalizing homelessness, finding dramatic increases over the past decade, we previously had not tracked statewide laws that perform the same function. This supplement to our last Housing Not Handcuffs 2019 report fills in that gap, finding that 48 out of 50 states & DC have some form of law criminalizing homelessness at the state level. To hear more about the experience of people with criminalization, the findings of the report, concerning trends, and exciting efforts to repeal state laws please join us:

Wednesday, December 1, 2021
2-3 ET/1-2 CT/12-1 MT/11-12 PT

Confirmed speakers include:
Rajan Bal, report lead author, formerly with the National Homelessness Law Center, now at Children’s Law Center
Delaware State Rep. Eric Morrison, (RD-27)

Other speakers to be announced.