TELL YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO FUND HOUSING AND SOLVE HOMELESSNESS!

We demand that our elected officials focus on solving homelessness through proven solutions like housing and services. For years, billionaires have been pushing cities and states across America to enact bills that have only made homelessness worse. Arresting, ticketing, or otherwise punishing people for living outside has never and will never solve homelessness. It’s time for Congress and the White House to do better.

In light of the Supreme Court’s appalling yet unsurprising ruling that homeless people are not protected under the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution, we must focus on the real remedy to homelessness: housing and services.

In America, where centuries of intentional policies have pushed Black  people, Indigenous people, and other people of color into homelessness at disproportionate rates, achieving housing justice cannot be achieved without achieving racial justice. Investing $365 billion this year is a needed, but not comprehensive, downpayment to addressing homelessness. America is the richest country in the world. We can afford to ensure that everybody has a roof over their heads, a warm bed, and a door to lock. Our neighbors living outside cannot wait any longer.

Nearly half of renters in America pay more than they can afford in rent, nearly one out of four worry they may soon become homeless, and two in three people have a personal connection to the housing crisis. Almost nowhere in America can a person earning minimum wage afford a safe and decent place to live. The lack of housing and the rising homelessness crisis are intertwined, urgent, and solvable.