Please note, an earlier email we sent on this topic contained a link to the wrong petition for this action. We apologize for the error. Please click below to join us as we unite for protections and solutions for the unhoused community.

Jack, add your name: Support the Unhoused Bill of Rights.

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Houselessness has been on the rise since 2017, experiencing an overall increase of 6 percent. This increase also comes amid soaring housing costs and rising prices for essentials like food and transportation. This is an unhoused crisis. That is why we’re calling on Congress to step in and pass comprehensive policies to create community-oriented solutions.

Rep. Cori Bush has introduced the Unhoused Bill of Rights–legislation that would declare the unhoused crisis a public health emergency and call for rigorous federal investments into homeless assistance programs, affordable housing initiatives, and wraparound services that keep people permanently housed.

Housing is a human right. We are calling on Congress to pass the legislation and ensure that right is addressed.

Please sign on today to demonstrate public support by becoming a grassroots co-sponsor of the Unhoused Bill of Rights.

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Thanks for all you do,
Erin Tulley, Daily Kos

P.S. Below is an email we sent out earlier calling on Congress to pass the Unhoused Bill of Rights:

Jack, it has been a little more than two years since Rep. Cori Bush held a five-day demonstration on the Capitol steps to successfully extend the pandemic relief eviction moratorium.

In the time since, the U.S. housing crisis has only gotten worse—rising housing costs continue to rapidly outpace wages and force people to live on the streets.

Add your name to help build public support for federal investments into curbing the crisis and to keep people permanently housed.

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Rep. Bush has reintroduced the Unhoused Bill of Rights, which calls for rigorous federal investments into homeless assistance programs, affordable housing initiatives, and wraparound services that keep people permanently housed. Specifically, the resolution:

Calls on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to declare the unhoused crisis a public health emergency;

Provides more affordable housing, universal housing vouchers, and increased funding for federal programs, shelters and emergency rental assistance. It also supports historic federal funding levels for state and local governments to provide support services, public restrooms, hand-washing stations, showers, laundry facilities, and water fountains;

Protects unhoused people from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents; and more.

Far too often, we exacerbate the housing crisis by focusing on criminalization and removal of unhoused neighbors instead of addressing the structural causes of houselessness and economic inequality. The Unhoused Bill of Rights provides an effective and compassionate path forward.

Add your name: Support the Unhoused Bill of Rights!

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Keep fighting,
Monique Teal, Daily Kos