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WRAP disseminates critical information on the most pressing issues our communities face. Knowledge is power in our struggle for social justice, equity, and housing for all. We hope you put it into action!

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WRAP Organizers Manual

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What follows is a manual based on the experiences of WRAP members. Wrap Exists To Expose And Eliminate The Root Causes Of Civil And Human Rights Abuses Of People Experiencing Poverty And Homelessness In Our Communities.
Part 1 details outreach’s benefits, relationship to organizing, techniques, and guiding principles.
Part 2 details effective strategies for police monitoring that our member organizations have variously called “Street Watch” or “Community Watch”— outreach designed specifically to systematically document patterns of civil rights violations and to lay the ground for their redress.


Housing Issues

Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures Download PDF

Without Housing 2010 Update Download PDF

Sin Vivienda Informe Actualizado 2010 Download PDF

Housing Rights Campaign Demands Download PDF

The Systemic Inadequacy of Bush’s Homelessness Policy Download PDF

Primer on Transforming Rental Assistance Download PDF

Transforming Rental Assistance: The Basics Click Here

Summary of New Federal Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness Download PDF

Without Housing High School Curriculum Download PDF

 


 Know Your Rigths 

This summer, the Systemic Justice Project—a policy innovation group created by Harvard Law School students—worked with local organizers to create Know Your Rights pamphlets for all ten of the communities banded together in the Stop the Sweeps campaign. Over the course of their research into local ordinances and constitutional protections, each of the interns remarked on how—while technically and theoretically unhoused people maintain rights the state must adhere to—basic civil rights are uniformly ignored, violated, and worked around. 

Know Your Rigths Austin, TX Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Chico, CA Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Denver, CO Download PDF

Know Your Rigths New York, NY Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Oakland, CA Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Portland, OR Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Sacramento, CA Download PDF

Know Your Rigths San Francisco, CA Download PDF

Know Your Rigths Santa Rosa, CA Download PDF

 

 Civil Rights Issues

DIRTY DIVIDE: “OUT OF SERVICE” A case study of public health inequity skid row, Los Angeles by LACANDownload PDF

US NINTH CIRCUIT OF APPEALS decision – June 19, 2014 Download PDF

An Examination of Portland’s BID: Their History and Approach by Caitlin Burke Download PDF

Strategizing the Right to the City: BIDs and Homeless People Download PDF

Business Improvement Districts Fact Sheet Download PDF

Street Watch Training Manual Download PDF

Without Housing, Without Rights Download PDF

Without Rights Concept Paper Download PDF

Department of Justice Request for Investigation of LAPD Central Division Misconduct by LA CAN Download PDF

 


Publications from WRAP Allies

Has the Safer Cities Initiative in Skid Row Reduced Serious Crime? By Gary Blasi and Forrest Stuart Download PDF

Check back soon for new resources!


National Reports & Other Publications

Cruel, Inhuman, and degrading: Homelessness in the United States by  National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty 


California HBR Legislation 2012 Bill AB5

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  • (AB 5) Homeless Bill of Rights.

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FOR MORE INFORMARTION VISIT US AT: http://wraphome FOR MORE INFORMARTION VISIT US AT: http://wraphome.org/developmentdirector
WRAP is hiring a full-time Development Director with at least 2 years of non-profit fundraising management experience. WRAP supports our core members, allies, and others by providing organizing tools and research for each to use in their campaigns fighting the criminalization of houselessness and for affordable housing. We are helping to build a regional /national movement �together and strengthen �connections of WRAP’s priorities with broader anti- racism, classism, neo-liberal capitalism, and criminalization campaigns.
Register here tinyurl.com/Mumia-film for Thursday Register here tinyurl.com/Mumia-film for Thursday night’s online screening of this moving, informative, personal, important, and artfully-made film. Cast includes Cornel West, Angela Davis, Dick Gregory, Alice Walker, Ruben ‘Hurricane’ Carter, and Amy Goodman.
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
Theatre of the POOR presents CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS Theatre of the POOR presents CRUSHING WHEELCHAIRS 
Sunday 2/12/23 4pm San Francisco 2948 16th St.
Sunday 2/26/23 4pm Oakland 1540 Broadway 
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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
Next Thursday, the 22nd, at 11am we are having a p Next Thursday, the 22nd, at 11am we are having a press conference as the preliminary hearings begin and need all our allies to show up and call for justice! https://conta.cc/3FyNtgH
A lot of work done addressing oppressions across t A lot of work done addressing oppressions across the country takes place in courtrooms and legislative bodies. This work is not always successful due to the fact that the oppressors are the ones making the laws. But we know you can’t fight a system if you don’t know the ins and outs of how that system works.  https://conta.cc/3VQrVDl
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.
Monday, 12/12 at 10:30am
bit.ly/oakmtg-1212
Let's Celebrate Chucho Let's Celebrate Chucho
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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Some Push Back Against Tiny Homes for Homeless People Site in San Jose

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California plans to build 1,200 small homes across the state to help house homeless people, but that has some people in San Jose pushing bac...
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