Protests as Cicero Institute Launches Homelessness Policy Summit

Protests as Cicero Institute Launches Homelessness Policy Summit

On June 5 right-wing think tank the Cicero Institute held its first-ever homelessness policy summit, a Washington, DC, event promoting the criminalization of street-homelessness, as advocates with the Housing Not Handcuffs campaign gathered downtown in protest. In 2021 Cicero produced a model bill, which legislators across the country have copy-pasted to become law, that calls for expanding the criminalization, surveillance and incarceration of …

Housing Not Handcuffs: Cicero Institute Profits from Criminalizing Homeless

A new report from Housing Not Handcuffs alleges that the Texas-based Cicero Institute maintains financial and political ties to industries, including private prison operations and surveillance technology firms, that stand to benefit from increased criminalization of unhoused individuals. The report contends that the Institute's policy proposals consistently advocate for law enforcement-centric responses to homelessness.