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Dear Law Center supporters,
 
The annual Homeless Persons' Memorial Day is this weekend. This year, like every year, people will gather across the country to mourn those who died without a safe place to call home. In a country as wealthy and as powerful as ours, it is shameful that anybody lives or dies without the dignity of a home. Every death of a homeless person is a preventable policy failure. We can and must do better. 
This year's memorial days feel especially charged. The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to ticket, arrest, and round up homeless people. We've already seen massive cuts to vital healthcare programs, decreases in food assistance, and draconian proposals to slash funding for housing. Utah's Governor found $45 million to build a massive, remote, homeless detention camp. Let us be clear: these policy choices will make more people homeless, hungry, and sick. And they mean that even more people will die.  

 
Even in sorrow, we continue to fight.
 
Homeless Persons Memorial Day is held on the darkest day of the year. Yet amongst this darkness and sorrow, we must continue to fight for a country where everybody has the housing and support they need. Below are two ways you can fight with us.  
  1. Demand that Congress pass the Housing Not Handcuffs Act  
  2. Attend our mass meeting on January 14th to learn more about the work being done to stop Utah's creation of a government-run homeless detention camp. Stay tuned for details!
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National Homelessness Law Center
1400 16th Street NW
Suite 425
Washington, DC 20036

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