Robin Craig
@robincraig1.bsky.social
Comms Strategist @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social. Liberal raised by conservatives. Passionate about ending poverty. (Views my own)
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.”
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.”
ICYMI: I spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about my book, There Is No Place for Us, alongside the families whose desperate efforts to secure housing the book follows—people working nonstop and still being pushed into homelessness.
When the employed are pushed into homelessness
In America we are taught hard work is the key to success. But despite having full-time jobs, many families are locked out of the rental housing market, due to low wages, soaring rents and poor credit,...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.”
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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These witnesses and commissioners—many of them Christian Nationalists—are attacking the only thing that guarantees true religious freedom. Because there is no freedom OF religion without a government that is free FROM religion. A secular government is a prerequisite for real religious freedom.
September 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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They really will do anything to make sure poor people don’t get what they need.
NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027.
A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.
By @savmargaret.bsky.social
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at lea...
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September 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
They really will do anything to make sure poor people don’t get what they need.
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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
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
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...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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
Advocates say it would be cheaper to help families get housing.
(Published Jan. 2024)
By @stephannnnie.bsky.social
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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...
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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September 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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...
People shouldn’t be pushed in to homelessness because corporations are too greedy to provide worker protections. #workersoverbillionaires
On #LaborDay, we recognize the essential workers who keep our economy moving—including gig workers.
New BHHI research shows how unstable income, lack of protections, and high costs leave many #gigworkers one paycheck away from #homelessness.
Learn more: buff.ly/frwz8W6
#workerprotections
New BHHI research shows how unstable income, lack of protections, and high costs leave many #gigworkers one paycheck away from #homelessness.
Learn more: buff.ly/frwz8W6
#workerprotections
September 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
People shouldn’t be pushed in to homelessness because corporations are too greedy to provide worker protections. #workersoverbillionaires
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"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.
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.
August 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"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.
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.
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.
It’s very easy to push people who struggle to afford basics—like rent, utilities, and food—into homelessness.
“People are really trying to balance food money and rent money, so any destabilization of federal funds is just going to lead to an increase in homelessness,” BHHI Director @m.kushel.bksy.social explains.
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July 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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.
It’s very easy to push people who struggle to afford basics—like rent, utilities, and food—into homelessness.
If I could quote this whole incredible podcast in this tiny character limit, I would. But I can’t, so just listen. ⬇️
June 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
If I could quote this whole incredible podcast in this tiny character limit, I would. But I can’t, so just listen. ⬇️
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. ❤️
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. ❤️
For 60 years, Head Start has transformed the lives of more than 40 million families.
We're taking the Trump administration to court for attempting to gut this essential program.
We're taking the Trump administration to court for attempting to gut this essential program.
Parents Push Back Against the Trump Administration's Latest Attack on Working Families | ACLU
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June 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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. ❤️
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. ❤️
No surprises here.
In this new article @self.com, ASA member Norah MacKendrick @nmackend.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social discusses how MAHA’s claims against Big Farm put the onus on women to source more “natural” or homegrown alternatives. bit.ly/3Hu0ddo
The Real MAHA Agenda? Sending Women Back to the Kitchen
Making our current system out to be the problem tasks mothers with being the solution.
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June 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
No surprises here.
Love this perspective from BHHI Director Dr. Margot Kushel.
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“I like to think, when I see a patient, of who else is in the room with me,” @mkushel.bsky.social tells clinicians at #ATS2025.
"...it is every person of authority ...every police officer who has roughed them up...every person who has treated them as less than human.”
www.ajmc.com/view/homeles...
"...it is every person of authority ...every police officer who has roughed them up...every person who has treated them as less than human.”
www.ajmc.com/view/homeles...
May 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Love this perspective from BHHI Director Dr. Margot Kushel.
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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.
I was lucky to learn about it from coworkers & would love to see more families benefit from it.
Only about half of eligible families are enrolled in #WIC, despite decades of full federal funding. We've updated our paper on how states and partners can help more families access this proven, cost-effective program that improves long-term health: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
WIC’s Critical Benefits Reach Only Half of Those Eligible | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
States are missing out on the opportunity to improve pregnancy-related and child health. Only 53.5 percent of eligible individuals participated in WIC in 2022.
www.cbpp.org
May 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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.
I was lucky to learn about it from coworkers & would love to see more families benefit from it.
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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.
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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.
Good news (albeit temporary) in California.
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
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.
calmatters.org
April 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Good news (albeit temporary) in California.
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
calmatters.org/justice/2025...
This administration is absolutely hell bent on ensuring women are forced into economic precarity for so many deeply obvious reasons.
Offering folks $5,000 to have a baby is wild—especially when y’all are the same ones trying to slash SNAP and Medicaid. The very benefits millions of Americans rely on to survive.
Since when did raising a baby only cost $5,000?
Since when did raising a baby only cost $5,000?
Trump administration looking at $5,000 'baby bonus' to incentivize public to have more children
The White House has been fielding proposals aimed at convincing people to marry and have children, an effort being pushed by groups focused on increasing the birth rate.
abcnews.go.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This administration is absolutely hell bent on ensuring women are forced into economic precarity for so many deeply obvious reasons.
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.
Love this thread from @jessicacalarco.bsky.social that explains why.
BUT: free universal healthcare does have one "downside" compared to MAHA's DIY model. It doesn't reward "healthy" people for being healthy. It doesn't offer them a sense of moral superiority--the belief that because of the "good choices" they make, they're better than everyone else. 5/
April 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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.
Love this thread from @jessicacalarco.bsky.social that explains why.
Of course they did.
Staff that administer programs to help the elderly, disabled people and poor families with basic needs lost their jobs amid the Trump administration's layoffs.
HHS layoffs hit Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors and disabled
Staff that administer programs to help the elderly, disabled people and poor families with basic needs lost their jobs amid the Trump administration's layoffs.
www.npr.org
April 2, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Of course they did.
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"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."
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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March 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"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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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.
They are not only anti-American—in that that refuse all of our core principles—but anti-human. They are husks.
March 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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.
They are not only anti-American—in that that refuse all of our core principles—but anti-human. They are husks.
Food stamps were barely enough to keep my family fed 12+ years ago. Cutting food assistance at today’s prices is deeply cruel.
Republican lawmakers could soon push proposals to cut food assistance for low-income families with children, raising grocery costs and food insecurity. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
2025 Budget Stakes: Proposals Would Reduce Children’s Access to School Meals and Other Food Assistance | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
In seeking deep cuts through a fast-track budget process, Republican lawmakers could soon advance proposals that would take away food assistance from low-income families with children or make it...
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March 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Food stamps were barely enough to keep my family fed 12+ years ago. Cutting food assistance at today’s prices is deeply cruel.
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. ⬇️
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. ⬇️
“No region in CA has enough shelter for everyone,” says BHHI Policy Director Marc Dones. But some beds go unused—not because people don’t want shelter, but because the options don’t meet their needs. “Sometimes these are easy fixes, and then we get people saying yes.” More on Fox 2:
In Depth: The cost of criminalizing homelessness
KTVU's Heather Holmes and Frank Mallicoat talk to Marc Dones, Policy Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the challenges unsheltered people face and what research says…
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March 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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. ⬇️
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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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.
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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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The "my mom hasn't gotten a Social Security check in seven weeks, my cousin lost his job at the VA, and my neighbor's kid's cancer drug trial was cancelled right before the treatment went live" voter is the 2026 voter the Dems need to be laying the groundwork for landing right now.
March 8, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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