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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

 


 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

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  • (AB 5) Homeless Bill of Rights.

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Washington D.C. PRESS RELEASE: Congresswoman Bush Washington D.C. PRESS RELEASE: Congresswoman Bush Re-Introduces Unhoused Bill of Rights https://wraphome.org/
After nearly 30 years of continuous publication, w After nearly 30 years of continuous publication, we have lost our funding. Street Spirit ceased publication on July 1, but we will not give up! Our newspaper is an invaluable source of East Bay news, and a vital resource for the people who sell it. Come party with us to support our effort to relaunch. https://conta.cc/3rifOod
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WRAP was founded in 2005 by local social justice organizations across the West to bring about real systemic change. We are building a multi-issue, multi-racial and social justice-based coalition which brings organizations together across the local–national divide, thus giving us the strength and experience to make ending poverty and homelessness a national priority. https://conta.cc/3XD5QK9
Celebrating Resistance Relationships June 30, 202 Celebrating Resistance Relationships 
June 30, 2023 * 6:00 - 8:00 pm 
320 West 37th Street, New York, NY 10018
State of the “Sweeps” The politics of encampme State of the “Sweeps”
The politics of encampments and displacement in the “post” pandemic order
Public panel discussion, June 14, 4-5:30pm Communications 120
University of Washington, Seattle
Undercommons Archives Art Show Thursday June 15th Undercommons Archives Art Show
Thursday June 15th 7-10pm 
Adobe Books 3130 24th St. SF
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San Francisco, CA. Mayor’s Plan to Expand Shelte San Francisco, CA. Mayor’s Plan to Expand Shelter GUTS HOUSING FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES AND YOUTH 
https://wraphome.org/2023/05/31/mayors-plan-to-expand-shelter-guts-housing-for-homeless-families-and-youth/
Nationally, evictions from public housing have sur Nationally, evictions from public housing have surged since late 2021, when the federal government lifted an eviction moratorium put in place to protect renters during the pandemic, according to Peter Hepburn, associate director of Princeton University’s Eviction Lab.  https://conta.cc/3WJco9B
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Mark your calendar: Homeless Advisory Meeting Friday September 22nd
If you are houseless or have been houseless or are on the edge of being houseless come to this meeting and speak up! 
If you are housed and can come listen and support please do too! If you can help provide rides to houseless people to this meeting please let us know. 
Friday September 22nd 11am-2pm 
at 20th Street Rec Center (1011 20th Street) 
There will be lunch.
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