Homes Not Jails

Homes Not Jails is an American organization which describes itself as "an autonomous group of individuals whose mission is to end homelessness and abolish the prison industrial complex." This group uses Franchise activism to achieve its goals.

They have, both overtly and covertly, occupied abandoned houses and turned them into housing for the homeless. They are concerned with rising poverty in the United States and the difficulty of low-income families to afford housing. They are also opposed to the present prison system in the United States, noting that it currently holds over two million incarcerated persons which are disproportionately comprised of poor people and minorities relative to the general population.

There are three documented chapters of Homes Not Jails: Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C..

ee also

*Food Not Bombs
*Squatting

External links

* [http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featwiegand_squat.shtml Wiegand E. (2004) "Trespass at Will: Squatting as Direct Action, Human Right & Justified Theft" (LiP Magazine)]