‘We can address poverty and public health concerns by providing people the housing, social services and care they actually need—and by divesting from policing and incarceration.’
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Paulette Soltani is the Housing Campaign Coordinator at VOCAL-NY, a grassroots organization that builds power among low-income people affected by homelessness, HIV/AIDS, drug use, and mass incarceration. On Twitter @VOCALNewYork.