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56 U.S.F. L. Rev. F. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/usfor56 and id is 1 raw text is: Housing Injustice as a Barrier to Reproductive Justice ByNORAH CUNNINGHAM* To me it is pretty clear that whatever serves as an obstacle to the whole of a woman's freedom and self-determination, like economic injustice, racial and sex discrimination, affects her reproductive freedom. Injustice in housing is a reproductive justice issue .... Not only should homelessness be regarded as a reproductive justice issue because of its direct impact on women's health, but because of its impact on the overall physical, mental, spiritual, political, economic, and social well-being of women.' Introduction VWE ARE MOTHERS, WE ARE WORKERS, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, and we deserve housing. Our children deserve housing. Housing is a human right. - Moms 4 Housingz On November 18, 2019, a collective of formerly unhoused mothers, who would become known as Moms 4 Housing, entered a vacant, unlocked home in Oakland, California, and planted the seeds of their own housing justice movement.' The house had been purchased by a home-flipping * J.D., 2020, University of San Francisco School of Law, magna cum laude, Public Interest Law Certificate; B.A., 2017, University of California, Santa Cruz, Community Studies and Sociology. Norah currently works in the public interest field in her role as an attorney at Justice At Last, an organization providing free wrap around legal services to survivors of human trafficking in the Bay Area. She would like to thank USF Law Professors Bill Hing, Yvonne Lindgren, and Julie Nice, as well as USF Law Review Volume 56 staff, particularly Editors Amy Metzgar and Laura Odujinrin. 1. Injustice in Housing Is a Reproductive.Justice Issue, ABORTION GANG (Sept. 8, 2010), https://abortiongang.wordpress.com/2010/09/08/injustice-in-housing-is-a-reproductive-justice-issue/ [https://perma.cc/7CR6-EYHQ]. 2. MOMS4HOUSING, https://moms4housing.org/ [https://perna.cc/5N99-PYL5]. 3. I will use the term unhoused rather than homeless to refer to people without homes to diminish the character stigmas attached with being unhoused. I will use the phrase experiencing homelessness to give weight to the barrers folks experiencing homelessness have faced in overcoming these stigmas. For a further discussion on this terminology, see Peter Lee, Homeless or Unhoused?, INSIDE OSL (Jan. 14, 2014), http://blog.oslserves.org/?p=38 [https://perma.cc/ 6NC5-TTM6]. 4. Brentin Mock & Sarah Holder, A Group ofMothers, a Vacant Home, and a Win for Fair Housing, CITYLAB (Jan. 28, 2020, 6:54 AM), https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/01/moms-4- housing-eviction-oakland-homeless-crisis-real-estate/605263/ [https://perma.cc/FQ52-74F3]. 1