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AHHA General Assembly

Jefferson Community Center

Affordable Homeless Housing Alternatives (AHHA) and the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP-www.wraphome.org) will be hosting a forum about the California Homeless Bill of Rights and Right to Rest legislation, Saturday, Nov. 5. At 12:00pm will be the monthly AHHA General Assembly at Jefferson Center (1000 B Street Eureka) focusing on actions to house the homeless. At 3pm a public forum and discussion on proposed California Legislation for a Homeless Bill of Rights next year will be presented at the Labor Union Hall (840 E Street, Eureka). Other California communities have ordinances like Eureka’s no-camping ordinance that, when enforced, routinely criminalize homelessness. In Eureka there are far too few shelter beds for those in need. With no other choice than to rest, sleep, eat and perform other life-sustaining activities in public spaces, people who are homeless are often cited and fined or even arrested and jailed. Police records then make it harder for people to gain employment and housing. Paul Boden of WRAP will talk about how the California Homeless Bill of Rights and Right to Rest legislation can eliminate criminalization, which the U.S. Justice Department is calling unconstitutional and “cruel and unusual punishment.” (www.wraphome.org). AHHA invites the public to join in the monthly AHHA General Assembly gathering from noon-2pm at Jefferson Community Center, 1000 B Street in Eureka, where Paul will also be a featured speaker on how to move affordable housing forward. The AHHA Community Forum with Paul Boden discussing the need for a California Homeless Bill of Rights, and Right to Rest begins at 3pm at the Labor Union Hall. AHHA and folks living rough in Eureka will outline the current situation of residents who have no legal place to be in Eureka, and their proposals for sanctuary camp to tiny house villages as solutions. The new AHHA Campaign to raise $100,000 to secure property and manifest Eureka’s first Tiny House Village for homeless will be highlighted at the General Assembly. The Campaign Kick-Off will follow at 3 pm with Paul Boden. More information on the AHHA Campaign for Land and Villages in Humboldt County is available at www.ahha-humco.org. This Campaign will create good looking villages for folks now living in the rain, and solve the community problem of folks only option of roaming and living on the streets while providing pathways to permanent housing. This important Forum for Humboldt County can make a difference by creating spaces that are safe, warm, and dry first!, until affordable housing is created. AHHA has a solution the community can participate in to bring folks out of the rain and off the streets through development of sanctuaries to tiny house villages.

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WHERE

• Jefferson Community Center

PRICE

• Free