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!
WRAP Brochure
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
Civil Rights Issues
Coalition On Homelessness San Francisco “Know Your Rights” Download English PDF Download Spanish PDF
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
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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
