Homes Not Jails

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Homes Not Jails is an American organization that is affiliated with the San Francisco Tenants Union.[1] It describes itself as an all-volunteer organization committed to housing homeless people through direct action.[2] The group was formed in 1992.[3] Homes Not Jails does public actions as well as legislative advocacy and squatting (occupying empty buildings for free). Homes Not Jails groups do "housing takeovers", acts of civil disobedience in which vacant buildings are publicly occupied, to demonstrate the availability of vacant property and to advocate that it be used for housing. The group has done many such occupations. Homes Not Jails has also done and assisted with hundreds of "covert" squats in which vacant buildings are broken into so that people in need of housing can move in.

  1. ^ Temple, James (2010-04-05). "Housing protest leads to takeover of duplex". SFGate. Archived from the original on 2020-11-09. Retrieved 2020-09-27.
  2. ^ Corr, Anders. No Trespassing! Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999. pp. 17–18, 22–24.
  3. ^ Novella Carpenter (January 27, 2009). "A Tale of Two Squatters". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 20, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2020.