The following organizations are calling on President Obama, HUD Secretary Donovan, and Congress to provide housing authorities with an immediate infusion of funding in the current fiscal year, to ensure that every current Section 8 tenant is able to keep their voucher.

Oregon ON, Washington State Low-Income Housing Alliance, Street Roots, Real Change, Columbia County Citizens for Human Dignity, Columbia River Business Alliance, Sisters Of The Road, Rural Organizing Project, Tillamook County Citizens for Human Dignity, Columbia Pacific Alliance for Social Justice, Latinos Unidos para un Futuro Mejor, Western Regional Advocacy Project, National Coalition for the Homeless, Rev. Chuck Currie, Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, LA Community Action Network, San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness/Street Sheet, Building Opportunities for Self Suffiency, International Network of Street Papers, Free United Homeless Coalition, CHAM Deliverance Ministry of San Jose, Oregon Coalition on Housing and Homelessness, National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness.

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Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Stephen K. Bushong has ruled that the city of Portland’s sidewalk-obstruction ordinance – commonly referred to as sit-lie, unconstitutionally exceeds the city’s authority.

The ruling was released today, and grants the motion to dismiss a sit-lie case being defended by attorney Clayton Lance.

“This ordinances has been found unconstitutional on three separate and distinct ground,” Lance told Street Roots. “That’s a heck of a lot of unconstitutionality for one little ordinance out of the city. It just is not going to work and they just keep trying to make it fit, and it will never be able to fit in my opinion.” READ MORE>>

With our ramped up campaign travel schedule and our new website – we need to update our Mac computers and software. Our computers crawl when we’re ready to run. We’ve held out as long as possible, but it’s affecting our ability to work efficiently. We’re hoping that you have a connection to help us get them donated or heavily discounted. Of course, checks are welcome too!

The federal government created the contemporary crisis of mass homelessness by cutting and refusing to restore billions and billions of dollars in funding for affordable housing programs, starting in the early 1980s and continuing to today. On top of this, every Congress and administration since then has focused on homeless people themselves as the cause of the problem, in the process institutionalizing the idea that “fixing” the broken people—rather than the broken system they dismantled—is the solution.

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