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Robin Craig

@robincraig1.bsky.social
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Comms Strategist @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social. Liberal raised by conservatives. Passionate about ending poverty. (Views my own)

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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Homelessness is extremely hard on people’s health. AND people with poor health are more likely to get pushed into homelessness for all kinds of reasons including job loss due to illness and the exorbitant cost of healthcare. It’s a vicious cycle—and we can do better. Come find out how ⬇️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
It’s getting harder and harder for people to afford rent, no matter how hard they work. One example: Rhea, a mother who often works 2AM-8PM to support her kids after fleeing domestic violence, still can’t secure housing. When asked if she could work any harder, she says “if I could I would.”
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
They really will do anything to make sure poor people don’t get what they need.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2025
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a @wabe.org and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing. (Published Jan. 2024) By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
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When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Newly released documents show the Trump Administration illegally delayed, withheld, or reclassified lawfully provided funds to block agencies from using money Congress approved, undermining services people count on: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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Trump Administration Abused Spending Safeguards to Advance Its Agenda — and Illegally Hid Its Actions | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The recent release of 1,800 internal budget documents shows just how far the Trump Administration is willing to go to illegally withhold or restrict funding.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
People shouldn’t be pushed in to homelessness because corporations are too greedy to provide worker protections. #workersoverbillionaires
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"I don't want to hurt you, stop fighting back, you're hurting yourself" is literally the language of an abuser. One of the most banally horrifying things about this administration is that there is no subtext, no dog whistles, no need for interpretive work. It's all just explicit racism and cruelty.
Excerpt from NYT article that reads: "'Every time they fight, they lose another $250 million,' Mr. Trump said of Harvard in the spring. 'Harvard had to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them,' he added. 'They're hurting themselves. They're fighting.'"
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It’s not just the proposed cuts to homelessness funding…it’s the Medicaid cuts, the SNAP cuts, etc. It’s very easy to push people who struggle to afford basics—like rent, utilities, and food—into homelessness.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
If I could quote this whole incredible podcast in this tiny character limit, I would. But I can’t, so just listen. ⬇️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Head Start is absolutely essential—so glad the ACLU is taking on this fight! My Head Start kid is headed to UC San Diego this fall. The years she spent in the program helped both of us build a better future for ourselves. ❤️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
No surprises here.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Love this perspective from BHHI Director Dr. Margot Kushel. ⬇️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
WIC was deeply important to me as a young single mom—the food provided was sometimes the only thing my son and I had to eat and the parenting classes were essential for a first time mom without support. I was lucky to learn about it from coworkers & would love to see more families benefit from it.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/05/2025
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Good news (albeit temporary) in California. calmatters.org/justice/2025...
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Judge restricts Border Patrol in California: 'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin'
'You just can’t walk up to people with brown skin and say give me your papers,' a judge said in ordering the Border Patrol to halt warrantless sweeps in California.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This administration is absolutely hell bent on ensuring women are forced into economic precarity for so many deeply obvious reasons.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The fact that some people would rather have an unearned sense of superiority than a social safety net that helps all of is bananas. Love this thread from @jessicacalarco.bsky.social that explains why.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Of course they did.
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UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"Homelessness is a housing problem. Drug use complicates it, but it is not the cause. Until we address housing, we are going to keep seeing people spiral on the street--whether they use drugs or not."
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Study Challenges Stereotypes, Finding Just 37% of California’s Homeless Population Are Regular Drug Users - Davis Vanguard
San Francisco - A new study from the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) is reshaping the public narrative around homelessness and drug
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The saddest and most pathetic thing about American fascism is that we’re losing control of our society to a group of men who do not understand or appreciate what makes life worth living. They are not only anti-American—in that that refuse all of our core principles—but anti-human. They are husks.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Food stamps were barely enough to keep my family fed 12+ years ago. Cutting food assistance at today’s prices is deeply cruel.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Most people living outside want shelter, but CA has 110k+ more people who need it than beds. When folks do turn down shelter, it’s usually because they’re scared or it doesn’t meet their needs. My brilliant boss Marc Dones offered data + practical advice on Fox last week. ⬇️
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This ⬇️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“And like all cults, we can still infiltrate and change things.” Love this perspective.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 25/02/2025
The House will vote TODAY on whether to advance devastating cuts to Medicaid that would destroy lifesaving programs for people with disabilities, children, seniors, and more. Call your representative now and tell them to save Medicaid at (202) 224-3121.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The idea that the harm will only come to other people is such an under-appreciated part of how we got here.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Disgustingly on brand.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
HUD secretaries from both parties have agreed for decades: housing ends homelessness. But Scott Turner rejects the evidence, supports criminalization, and [checks notes] won't say whether he'd support sending people who can’t afford housing to detention camps. ⬇️
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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"turns out that inefficiency was load-bearing" is a phrase i keep repeating over and over these past few days
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Taking a breather to remember what makes me happy. Spending time with my kids and some trees last month was amazing. ❤️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
It’s hard to know where to focus our energy right now, and this list feels like a great place to start.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Unbelievable.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It all feels like a family with a genuinely abusive family member choosing to just carry on with the holiday traditions, hoping to create normalcy through sheer will and denial.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This feels useful and that’s nice right now.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This ⬇️⬇️
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Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies @harvard-jchs.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
In the coming weeks and months, people whose homes are gone will have to find more stable accommodations while they rebuild. That will not be easy in a metro area that, as of 2022, already had a shortage of about 337,000 homes. @conordougherty.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/b...
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Los Angeles Wildfires Will Make a Serious Housing Shortage Worse
With so many people displaced and looking for rentals, the region’s housing options could grow even scarcer and more expensive.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Imagine getting cited for setting up a place to sleep outside after the city towed your RV…while you’re in labor. The pushing. The demands that she stand right next to officer the whole time. The cruelty is unfathomable. www.lpm.org/news/2024-12...
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Pregnant Kentucky woman cited for street camping while in labor
She told a police officer she was in labor. The Louisville Metro Police Department lieutenant cited her for unlawful camping as the ambulance arrived. She had a baby later that day.
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are spending tremendous amounts of money not solving homelessness. My colleague Marc Dones explains how jurisdictions can resolve encampments effectively, and Denver Mayor Mike Johnson shares how evidence-based solutions dramatically reduced the city’s unsheltered homelessness. ⬇️
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Sasha Perigo @sashaperigo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The same day that the United Healthcare CEO is assassinated in broad daylight, Blue Cross Blue Shield announces that they will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of surgeries. Class war is alive and well. It’s usually one-sided. bsky.app/profile/more...
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
All of this ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Robin Craig @robincraig1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We cannot abandon the most vulnerable communities to assuage the most powerful. Even if we did, it would never be enough.” - Roxane Gay www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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Opinion | Enough
To suggest we should yield even a little to Trump’s odious politics is unacceptable. Even if we did, it would never be enough.
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