John,

The unhoused crisis in America is a public health emergency. That’s why I’m joining with my sister in service, Rep. Cori Bush, urging Congress to pass the Unhoused Bill of Rights.

This resolution would make critical federal investments in homeless assistance programs, affordable housing initiatives, and wraparound services that keep people permanently housed.

Add your name and become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Unhoused Bill of Rights today to demand Congress act.

This is urgent. With rising rental costs rapidly outpacing wages, more and more families are forced to live on the streets, where they are criminalized and dehumanized.

Now the far-right is demonizing unhoused people for not being able to afford housing. But we know that everyone deserves a safe place to live, and housing is a human right.

We have the resources to permanently end the unhoused crisis. We just need the political will to make it happen.

The Unhoused Bill of Rights will:

• Provide a blueprint for the federal government to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2027 by drastically increasing the affordable housing stock, providing universal housing vouchers, and bolstering funding to federal housing programs, shelters, transitional and permanent housing programs, social services, and permanent emergency rental assistance;

• Call on the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the unhoused crisis a public health emergency;

• Protect unhoused individuals from the violation of their fundamental human rights to housing, health care, livable wages, education, employment opportunities, access to public facilities, and freedom from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents;

• Support historic federal funding levels for state and local governments to provide 24-hour support for unhoused people, including: shelters, transitional housing programs, supportive services, public restrooms, hand-washing stations, showers, laundry facilities, and water fountains in coordination with grassroots and community-led organizations;

• Develop holistic, health-based, and non-carceral solutions to the unhoused crisis in coordination with the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), community-led organizations, and unhoused advocates from a health-based approach that addresses both the unhoused and public health crises.

We have the power and the money to guarantee housing as a human right, but to do so we need Congress to reorient its priorities. Click here to become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Unhoused Bill of Rights and demand Congress take action to secure housing for those in need.

Together, we’re fighting for housing justice, and for the rights of marginalized people everywhere.

Always serving you,

Rashida