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![Critics Slam NYC Plan to Involuntarily Hospitalize Those With Mental Illness](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/seg3-adams-400x300.jpg)
Critics Slam NYC Plan to Involuntarily Hospitalize Those With Mental Illness
Rights groups are instead demanding better access to support for people struggling with mental illness and homelessness.
![Unhoused people and advocates set up their tents and hold a rally outside city hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 10, 2022, where they are asking for a moratorium on raids against encampments.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/12/2022_1201-unhoused-400x300.jpg)
New Bill Targets Hedge Fund Stranglehold on Housing Market
The legislation aims to prevent rich investors from taking advantage of renters and limiting homeownership.
![Betty Gabaldo, center, marches with tenants and activists after a rally at the Delta Pines apartment complex in Antioch, California, on June 22, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1125-rent-protest-400x300.jpg)
Rent Is Too Damned High: US Tenants Mobilize to Demand Rent Controls
Tenants nationwide are organizing to win affordable housing, limit rental fees and protect their homes and communities.
![Supporters take the stage to celebrate a likely victory at the Yes on 1 and Yes on 4 event for the 2022 Midterm Elections at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts on November 9, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1244637418-400x300.jpg)
Inequality-Fighting Ballot Initiatives Won Big in the Midterms
Voters approved proposals to tax the rich, build worker power, and make housing and education more affordable.
![Jackie McDonald, 62, a former U.S. Navy Veteran who was homeless for 14 months, became emotional when describing her feelings about moving into the facility in Boston's Brighton on September 16, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1111-veteran-400x300.jpg)
Programs to Assist Unhoused People Fall Short for Black Veterans
Black veterans often face racial discrimination and bias during service, then experience disparities in VA care after.
![A woman who is living at the Union Rescue Mission cast her vote at the James Wood Community Center at in downtown Los Angeles on June 7, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/GettyImages-1241166858-400x300.jpg)
Housing and Homelessness Are on the Ballot. Will Unhoused People Have a Say?
Housing measures are on the ballot in nearly 80 jurisdictions, but those most affected struggle to get to the polls.
![LA Ballot Measure Would Let Unhoused People Stay in Hotels Past Pandemic](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/seg2-unhoused-hotel-400x300.jpg)
LA Ballot Measure Would Let Unhoused People Stay in Hotels Past Pandemic
In LA County, around 60,000 people are unhoused and thousands more face eviction, even as 20,000 hotel rooms are vacant.
![People gather for The Right to REST without ARREST Rally and Press Conference on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall on July 28, 2021, in Los Angeles, California.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/08/2022_0815-housing-protest-400x300.jpg)
Unhoused Activists Are Fighting a Surge of Bills Criminalizing Homelessness
As soaring rents push people onto the streets, many unhoused people are rising up against harmful legislation.
![Protestors in Los Angles hold signs saying "Protect our unhoused neighbors"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1309213219-400x300.jpg)
New Proposal Would Tax the Rich to House Low-Income People in Los Angeles
A proposal on the ballot in Los Angeles would tax turnovers of luxury properties to fund affordable housing.
![The New York City Department of Sanitation, backed up by police officers, conduct enforced removals of homeless encampments on June 23, 2022, in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York City, New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/06/GettyImages-1404728940-400x300.jpg)
Arresting Unhoused People Doesn’t Fix Homelessness. Police Do It Anyway.
The vast criminalization of unhoused people for largely nonviolent violations in several West coast cities is underway.