Without Housing
The federal government played a major role in creating homelessness by cutting tens of billions of dollars from affordable housing programs beginning in the early 1980s. Relying on the market to deliver affordable housing has only worsened the problem.
Since then, every federal plan to address homelessness has primarily focused on “fixing” homeless people rather than the broken housing system. This approach – part of the broader war against the poor ushered in by Reagan – has institutionalized a vicious cycle of homeless policy. As a result, millions of people live without housing in the U.S. every year — including well over a million children.
2022 Housing survey
What is the Housing Survey and why are we doing it?
Housekeys Action Network Denver together with Western Regional Advocacy Project are doing an outreach survey to hear from people without housing about desires and needs for housing. This survey will gather input on what kinds of housing houseless people want, how that housing should be accessed, and other housing policies.
We are doing this survey…
-To gather information and input from people who have experienced houselessness about what housing we should be fighting for.
-To build a foundation for housing legislation or policy/practice changes needed in housing.
-To build a movement of houseless and poor people fighting for housing for all.
What do we mean by Outreach?
We believe firmly that the fight for housing must be directed by the priorities of those needing that housing. In order to do this we must meet people where they are at, listen, and document what folks say. This is what we will be doing through outreach with this Housing Survey.
Housing Factsheets
Check out the 2020 HUD Budget cuts Fact Sheet
Echa un vistazo Hoja de Hechos 2020 Presupuesto propuesto de HUD
Check out the 2019 HUD Budget cuts Fact Sheet
2018 HUD Budget proposed cuts Fact Sheet
WRAP’s housing campaign attempts to reverse this trend by unifying communities under the simple premise that every person deserves a safe place to call home. Our first step was to create Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures 2006 to reframe the national debate on homelessness, affordable housing, and governmental funding priorities, the great response from the report push us to update Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness and Policy Failures Update 2010.
We then launched a mass public education campaign, building relationships with thousands of people across the country. Having laid this groundwork, we’re now organizing around these demands to win federal reinvestment in affordable housing programs.
Give us a call if you are interested in learning more.
Power Point Presentation
Housing Factsheet
Check out the facts in our 2018 HUD Budget proposed cuts Fact Sheet and what has been playing out over the years.
See Fact Sheet Artwork below
2012 HUD Budget Fact Sheet
See Fact Sheet Artwork below
(Impact of the 2013 Sequester on Housing and Homeless Services)
See our Without Housing Report for more details about how these massive cuts are the cause of, and continue to perpetuate homelessness in our communities.
Contact our Executive Director:
Paul Boden at pboden@wraphome.org
or at (415) 621-2533
If you want to connect with organizing in your community and/or want to join forces with WRAP.
