If we want to make real change, then we need to educate ourselves and our community about the real root causes of homelessness and poverty. We need to undo the harmful narratives about our unhoused neighbors that are fueling the policies that we’re seeing now.

Sisters of the Road has always stood against the forces that would stigmatize, criminalize, traumatize, and dehumanize people regardless of their social standing.

If we have the money to spend jailing people, enforcing camping bans, and building more places for people to be homeless, then we have the money to build or put people into permanent housing, plain and simple.

At Sisters, we see the direct results of evictions far too often. I’ve heard so many stories of people unjustly evicted who had no idea how to defend themselves.

If you were faced with an eviction notice tomorrow, would you know where to turn?