Housing Rights Campaign

Current  Activites  on  Housing  Rights   Campaing.

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Check  out  the  facts  in  our  NEW 2012 HUD Budget Fact Sheet about what has been playing out over the years.

See  our   Without Housing Report for more details about how these massive cuts  are  the  cause of,  and  continue  to perpetuate homelessness in our communities.

Contact our Organizing Director:
Paul Boden at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
or  at  (415) 621-2533

If  you  want to connect with organizing in your community and/or want to join forces with WRAP.

 

The federal government played a major role in creating homelessness by cutting tens of billions of dollars from affordable housing programs beginning in the early 1980s. Relying on the market to deliver affordable housing has only worsened the problem.

Since then, every federal plan to address homelessness has primarily focused on "fixing" homeless people rather than the broken housing system. This approach – part of the broader war against the poor ushered in by Reagan – has institutionalized a vicious cycle of homeless policy. As a result, millions of people live without housing in the U.S. every year — including well over a million children.

WRAP’s housing campaign attempts to reverse this trend by unifying communities under the simple premise that every person deserves a safe place to call home.  Our first step was to reframe the national debate on homelessness, affordable housing, and governmental funding priorities by publishing Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures.

We then launched a mass public education campaign, building relationships with thousands of people across the country. Having laid this groundwork, we're now organizing around these demands to win federal reinvestment in affordable housing programs.

Give us a call if you are interested in learning more