November 2021
Bring America Home NOW! Decades of incremental change have not resolved homelessness. Join us here in calling for a permanent end to homelessness!
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Here is why we are thankful for you:
- You SPOKE UP and Congress HEARD you! The House Of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act, including nearly $170 billion of investment in housing. Learn more about what this investment will mean for affordable housing in your community.
- You joined us in sharing your experience with homelessness and strategized with us to Bring America Home NOW!
- You continue to raise awareness by speaking truth to power. Your bravery in sharing your story in order to bring about changes inspires us every day!
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After several months of negotiations, the president’s original $3.5 trillion-dollar Build Back Better Act has been reduced in price tag to $1.75 trillion dollars (read the text of the Build Back Better bill).
Among other measures, Build Back Better includes
- $25 billion for rental assistance to low-income and homeless families and individuals;
- $15 billion for the national Housing Trust Fund;
- and major investments in public housing, rural housing and housing for the elderly and people with disabilities.
It also includes an expansion of the child tax credit, job training and other targeted health and workforce investments that will help secure greater economic security to end and prevent homelessness.
Like the Bring America Home Now campaign, this legislation forwards comprehensive anti-poverty measures and, if enacted into law, would make a significant impact on our efforts to address mass homelessness.
The Senate now needs to pass Build Back better for these historic investments in our social infrastructure to be made. Please keep up the pressure by contacting your legislators!
- Tell your Representative, "Thank you!" for passing Build Back Better.
- Urge your Senator to pass Build Back Better to bring desperately needed anti-poverty investments to fruition!
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New study demonstrates a growing generational crisis and explores the dimensions, drivers, and misperceptions of being defined as homeless.
The Homeless Experience in America report, released by GREAT STUFF™, explores the harmful misrepresentation that causes Americans to have conflicting emotions about homelessness, from sympathy and guilt to fear. The necessity of research, data and education plays a critical role in dismantling the dimensions, drivers, and misconceptions of being defined as homeless. Research sets a foundation for a scaled effort to uplift our neighbors without a home.
GREAT STUFF™is committed to raising visibility and inherent humanity for everyone who is vulnerable to a housing crisis. They believe that strong communities are built when all people are represented. Everyone deserves to be seen, heard and accepted, punctuated by a sense of belonging and valued as a visible member of the community. As the report reveals that 1 in 3 Millennials are or have experienced homelessness –more than any generation before them –American must move with an urgency to reverse the growing number of people without housing.
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National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
NCH collaborates with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council to commemorate Homeless Persons' Memorial Day. This is a day to remember those who have passed away over the last year. The target is to host a candlelight vigil on December 21, the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year. There is nice tool kit here to give some pointers for constructing a local memorial day. Please contact [email protected] if you have any questions or would like your local memorial day publicized by NCH.
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Last Chance to Submit Your Input to USICH
The U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is seeking input on its Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness until November 30, 2021!
Among the people who are encouraged to submit feedback are:
- people who have experienced homelessness;
- people who serve the LGBTQ, BIPOC, or veteran communities;
- and people whose work involves the justice system.
Make your voice heard and comment here today!
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Apply for scholarship for NAEH conference
Our friends at the National Alliance to End Homelessness will be holding their conference, Ending Unsheltered Homelessness: Strategies & Policies That Work in Oakland, California, February 16 - 18, 2022.
The Conference will bring together providers, system leaders, advocates, people with lived expertise, and others from across the country to address a national crisis that has become the focal point for homelessness in America. National Scholarship Applications for the 2022 National Conference on are being accepted through Friday, December 15, 2021. Apply today to receive registration and travel to the conference!
National Coalition for the Homeless, 2201 P Street NW, Washington, DC 20037
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