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Legal Defense Clinics Project
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The Legal Defense Clinics (LDC) Project aims to strengthen and support the growing movement to decriminalize homelessness by reimagining… More

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Pipe Dreams and Picket Fences
Pipe Dreams and Picket Fences

“Pipe Dreams and Picket Fences: Direction from Denver’s Houseless People on Housing Needs and Priorities in the Context of Today’s… More

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40 YEARS OF HOMELESSNESS
40 YEARS OF HOMELESSNESS

Forty years ago, the federal government slashed affordable housing budgets of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), marking the beginning of the contemporary crisis of homelessness. It has become political fodder for local politicians to say they will end homelessness “in this city” with complete disregard for the fact that no one city created homelessness, and none will end it on their own.

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40 AŇOS DE FALTA DE VIVIENDA
40 AŇOS DE FALTA DE VIVIENDA

por Paul Boden y Western Regional Advocacy Project

Art Hazelwood (WRAP Ministro de Cultura)

Hace cuarenta años, el gobierno federal corto… More

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From East Coast to West Coast… Abolish BIDs!

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CARE COURT IS ANOTHER TOOL FOR OPPRESSION. CARCERAL COURTS DON’T CARE.
CARE COURT IS ANOTHER TOOL FOR OPPRESSION. CARCERAL COURTS DON’T CARE.

TLDR: Newsom’s CARE Act (SB 1338) weaponizes care (read: conservatorship) against poor and Disabled people, doubles down on racist and… More

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Oakland, CA. Wood Street Commons 2nd Annual Solidarity Bike Ride to Sac-“Homeless Helping Homeless”

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Announcing the Wood Street 2nd Annual Bike Ride to Sacramento from Oakland! We are asking…

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WRAP’s beloved grant writer, radical organizer, good friend and staff person Lynn Lewis has edited and published a book, Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice, from City Lights Books, San Francisco. 

September 20, 2023 No Comments

Lynn interviews nine women, including WRAP leader and board member Terese Howard, who have dedicated…

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Mission The Legal Defense Clinics (LDC) Project aims to strengthen and support the growing movement…

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Denver, CO. HAND organizer Terese Howard is in a book!

September 8, 2023 No Comments

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Sacramento prosecutor sues California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento’s top prosecutor is suing the city’s leaders over failure to cleanup homeless encampments, escalating ...
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