20 Years of Unhoused People Fighting for Dignity + Respect

We Will Not Disappear 20 years of unhoused people fighting for dignity & respect Zine Download

On March 1st, 2025, WRAP entered our 20th year. It is pretty freaking cool that WRAP is stronger than ever as we hit this milestone. Building member power, sustaining funders, engaging volunteers – hell, even holding down an office for 20 years – is no joke and something we can be proud of.

Juxtaposed with this sense of accomplishment around how we have built incredible community strength is the deadly reality we are witnessing today: police brutality in the streets; unabashed racism, transphobia, and xenophobia; and dehumanizing, neoliberal policy and funding priorities. Wiping out Medicare, HUD, SNAPs, CDC, etc is gonna kill people, they know, we know so the question is – What are we gonna do about it?

We’re gonna keep fighting and growing! We are applying lessons learned over the last two decades in many ways:

Welcoming new people to join us in this fight with our multimedia outreach training.
Systematically asking our unhoused community members what they’re experiencing and what they need, and using that to inform our multistate organizing plan.
Creating kickass artwork and speaking out nationally in ways that directly reflect the reality of the streets.
Building momentum with our Legal Defense Clinic Project to bring accountable organizing and movement lawyering together.
Working with immigrant rights groups to support our undocumented community members.

All of this supports members in building an even stronger base for local organizing. We are connecting more and more groups across city and state lines, providing critical infrastructure to expand this movement for a more humane world.

None of us are gonna survive the shitstorm that has formed over all of our heads alone. Just as we didn’t survive the last 20 years alone. We will continue to learn and build together, with love and respect for each other.