"Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) stands with our unsheltered neighbors across North Carolina who are experiencing violence at the hands of local and federal law enforcement through raids, removals, and displacement."
"The aggressive policing tactics coupled with regressive laws, including Iryna's Law (H307) in North Carolina, have resulted in the increased incarceration and institutionalization of people living in the streets. What is being framed as public safety is, in practice, the criminalization of poverty, and it is making our communities less safe, not more."
"President Donald Trump's July 2025 executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” accelerated these harms, increasing the policing and forced institutionalization of people living on the streets over any meaningful investment in the affordable housing, healthcare, and support services that actually end homelessness."
"Everyone should have shelter, safety, and support. SCSJ will continue to advocate for the most vulnerable members of our society and fight against policies and practices, local, state, or federal, that treat poverty as a crime."
Southern Coalition for Social Justice supports unsheltered neighbors across North Carolina facing violence from local and federal law enforcement through raids, removals, and displacement. Aggressive policing tactics combined with regressive laws, including Iryna's Law (H307), have increased incarceration and institutionalization of people living on the streets. Public safety framing is described as criminalization of poverty that makes communities less safe rather than more safe. A July 2025 executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” is said to have accelerated these harms by increasing policing and forced institutionalization instead of investing in affordable housing, healthcare, and support services that end homelessness. The organization calls for shelter, safety, and support and opposes policies treating poverty as a crime.
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