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WHO WE ARE
The Economic Stimulus Bill just passed in February could give most Americans up to $8 more with each paycheck! Annual membership in NCH costs just $35, about 1/8th of your annual stimulus benefit. 1/8th of your stimulus will help us assist the 1/8th of Americans facing poverty in accessing the resources they need to stabilize their lives.
The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1982, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness. We are committed to creating the systemic and attitudinal changes necessary to prevent and end homelessness. At the same time, we work to meet the immediate needs of people who are currently experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of doing so. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work.
BREAKING NEWS
- April 17: A New Hate Crime Bill Might Make Maryland a Pioneer (Washington Post Article)
April 15 is Tax Day - Join us at our nation’s post offices as we call for Economic Justice with a Universal Living Wage.
Click here to learn more about the Universal Living Wage.
April 13: "Rising Circulation, at Papers Sold by Homeless" - NY Times article on the Street Newspaper movement across the US.
April 12: The Census Bureau claims that 1 in 9 houses in the US are vacant.
Now, homeless families are moving in to, and finding refuge in, these adbandoned homes. ABC featured Michael Stoops and "Take Back the Land" Director Max Rameau in this video about the crisis. Another piece also features this story.
April 10: "More Squatters Are Calling Foreclosures Home" - NY Times
Article released today in which Michael Stoops, NCH Executive Director and Anita Beaty and Ben Burton, NCH Board Members are quoted.
NCH Quarterly Public Policy Call on April 8@ 4pm EST
In particular, the primary focus of the call will be on housing and homelessness components in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. (Click here for pdf flyer which contains more information about the call.)
- April 7: Prize winning work and thesis by former NCH intern. We are so grateful for all the work our former and current interns have done for the organization. You guys ROCK! Thank you!
- March 26: NCH was asked to comment on the tent cities and shanty towns springing up across the country, for a NY Times article released today.
- March 22: NEW Voter Rights/Registration Packet.
- March 14: A letter from NCH to President Obama concerning the Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness.
- March 10: America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness describes the plight of America’s homeless children. For the first time, comprehensive information about our country’s most vulnerable children is synthesized in a single report, giving us the opportunity to focus on the needs of these children and to galvanize a comprehensive response.
Released by the National Center on Family Homelessness
Click Here for the Full Report (Very large file) or Click Here to view the Executive Summary - March 8: Check out our YouTube page at www.youtube.com/user/nationalhomelesscoal.
- February 14: DOX Podiatry and ACFAS Kick Off Campaign to Donate Thousands of Socks for Washington's Homeless.
- Do 1 Thingis a nationwide effort between photographers and journalists that raises awareness of homeless teenagers and encourages individuals to do one thing to assist them on Valentine’s Day 2009.
- The Oxfam America CHANGE Initiative is now accepting student applications for the 2009 CHANGE Training!
ACTION ALERT: Tell your Senators to prevent an increase in homelessness in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
- Increase Seen in Attacks on Homeless
(Washington Post Article: Feb 5, 2009)
- The Inauguration was January 20. What will President-Elect Obama do for people experiencing homelessness?
- The National Coalition for the Homeless asks Obama to work for minimum wage
- Paying the President a Minimum Wage article
- A letter to President-elect Obama from NCH.
- DC’s Homeless To Give Recommendations to President-Elect Barack Obama
- ACTION ALERT: Ask President-Elect Obama to prioritize ending homelessness
- January 15: Authorities say homeless need to uproot their downtown encampments before inauguration (an article in Newsday)
- January 15: Finding Havens for the Homeless (an article in the Washington Post)
- January 14: Foreclosure Survey: NCH is now requesting the responses of advocates, service providers, and people surviving foreclosure nationwide for a follow-up survey and report about the foreclosure crisis. Please use the below links to complete the survey – only one page long and we promise it will take you no more than 15 minutes to fill out! Your response is greatly appreciated!
- Personal Survey for People Surviving Foreclosure
- Coalition/Provider/Agency Survey
- For more information or to download the surveys as printable pdfs, please click here.
- January 14: Fatally Beaten Homeless Man Lives On in the Songs He Sang (an article in the Washington Post)
- January 13: “NCH has prepared a side-by-side description and analysis of legislation to reauthorize HUD’s McKinney-Vento homeless assistance programs. Click here to view the Side-by-Side.”
- January 13: Radiohead Gives Castaway a Loving Home.
- "It Can Happen to Anyone:'' Click to view NCH's new PSA.
- Wednesday December 10: HUMAN RIGHTS DAY 2008
Click here to view the UN's webpage commemorating 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Also, see this page to find out what NCH is doing to address civil rights issues relating to homelessness. - The Homeless World Cup has kicked off in Australia and Team USA needs your support! Follow their progress and send them a note of encouragement by clicking here!
- NCH's new Homeless Challenge Project webpage!
- Read NCH's report on the affects of the foreclosure crisis on the state of homelessness.
Foreclosure to Homelessness: the Forgotten Victims of the Subprime Crisis - NCH is becoming internet savvy! Donate to NCH by searching the internet with www.GoodSearch.com! Or visit our page on Myspace (www.myspace.com/nationalhomeless) and join our Group and Cause to End Homelessness on Facebook!
- The National Survey on Tobacco Prevention at Homeless Service Agencies. The results of this survey will help guide further research and funding to this issue. Please click here to take the survey.
- Hotels that can sleep well at night: The hospitality industry is opening doors to causes and communities in need.
- Farrah Gray Signs on as Spokesperson for National Coalition for the Homeless.
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