In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, housing justice organizers have marshalled widespread concern about public health to push policymakers to stop policing poverty and instead invest in housing and care. If this campaign succeeds, it will be the most important feminist victory of the decade.
Author: Dilara Yarbrough
Dilara Yarbrough is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research about the criminalization of vulnerable groups has been published in Social Problems and The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is working on a book about the impacts of policing compared with other types of policy responses to poverty and homelessness, centering the perspectives and political organizing of transgender women of color and unhoused activists.