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Eric Ares

Eric Ares is the Housing and Homelessness Director for Los Angeles Council Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez. For over 15 years he has worked alongside unhoused residents, low-income tenants, organizers/advocates, and service providers in Skid Row and South LA to build the community power necessary to create permanent solutions to homelessness and end the criminalization of poverty in LA and beyond. 

What in your opinion is the role/expertise WRAP plays in this moment after 40 years of modern-day houselessness and growing criminalization – but also the growing movement of radical organizations and people’s movements fighting for the world we want?

WRAP has created a critical role in developing a national network of organizations that build power to resist policies that punish people for being poor and unhoused – all while centering the needs, skills, and voices of those most impacted by this form of state-sanctioned violence. WRAP does this through developing and disseminating best practices and tools – such as legal interventions like impact litigation and citation defense clinics, research, community organizing, strategic communications, agitprop, etc. Central to this – however – is partnership with the unhoused, local community-based organizations, and other allies. The ongoing War on the Poor is ongoing, and WRAP has help build the movement that envisions a world where we prioritize the housing and service needs of the most vulnerable in our communities – rather than systematically stripping these away from people and then turning around and punishing them for it. 

Paul has also been doing this for 40 years – Want to send a love message to Paul – about his impact on your work – and/or about his impact overall?

Paul is the living embodiment of solidarity – with the poor, with the unhoused, and with all those fighting for human rights in our world. The truest, most brilliant leaders I know and respect are those who do not center themselves – but center the work and the leadership of others to do the work. This is Paul – one of the most selfless, charismatic, and passionate people I’ve ever met. Paul fights for a future that is possible – and that we will achieve – and does so with the unwavering commitment to justice and equity that winning it requires. Paul represents the world we can have – and the way we are going to get there. I fucking love him.

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Forty years ago, the federal government slashed af 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. https://conta.cc/3k4mDpA
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One of the questions we asked people we love about One of the questions we asked people we love about this continuing forty-year process of addressing the root causes of homelessness in America was recognizing that our comrade Paul has also been fighting this neoliberal bullshit for forty years. In earlier emails people spoke about the importance of WRAP. Here is what some of our friends had to say about Paul’s role over the last forty years. https://conta.cc/3vbUnUx
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Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to re Join the next Public Works Committee Meeting to reject the “safe work zone” ordinance that aims to further criminalize unhoused people and their advocates during sweeps.
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We are raising $40,000 for WRAP’s vital work at We are raising $40,000 for WRAP’s vital work at this 40-year mark, and all donations will be matched up to $20,000 in November and December! Contribute $40, $400, $4,000 to help make sure that mass homelessness is not around another 40 years. https://conta.cc/3VAWHQ8
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Ashland, OR. HouseLess Community Gathers for “Let Us Sleep" 1/27 Rally in Ashland - WRAP

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –Media Contact – LookingForMyRights@gmail.com(541) 414-5166 On Friday, January 27th, HouseLess community members a...
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