Every day in America, people experiencing homelessness are threatened by law enforcement, ticketed, and even arrested for living in public spaces when they have no other alternative. Millions of individuals, families, and youth experience homelessness each year and millions more lack access to decent, stable housing they can afford. Rather than providing adequate housing options, too many communities criminalize homelessness by making it illegal for people to stand, sit, sleep, shelter oneself with anything from a blanket to a vehicle, or even ask for help. These laws and policies violate constitutional, civil, and human rights, traumatize homeless individuals and negatively impact their physical and mental health (including creating police encounters than can lead to unnecessary use of force or death), create arrest records, fines, and fees that stand in the way of homeless people securing jobs or housing, and perpetuate racial inequity. Criminalization harms entire communities, by giving resources to law enforcement that could be going, more effectively, to housing and services. With COVID-19 threatening to explode the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, which as always, disparately impacts Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC), now, more than ever, we need a united voice for Housing, Not Handcuffs.