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Public commenter urges Spokane County to stop criminalizing homelessness
Summary
At the Feb. 4 Spokane County consent meeting, Becky Dickerhoof read a statement from Housing Not Handcuffs urging the county to end laws and policies that criminalize basic life-sustaining activities by people experiencing homelessness.
Becky Dickerhoof, City of Spokane, told the Spokane County Board of Commissioners Feb. 4 that the criminalization of homelessness is ineffective, costly and harms people already disproportionately affected by housing instability.
"In order to end the crisis of homelessness, the criminalization of homelessness must end," Dickerhoof said, reading from material published by the advocacy group…
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