Basic Info
- Name:
- National Coalition for the Homeless
- Category:
- Organizations - Advocacy Organizations
- Description:
- The National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), founded in 1982, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness.
Toward this end, the National Coalition for the Homeless engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the... (read more) - Privacy Type:
- Open: All content is public.
Contact Info
- Email:
- Website:
- http://www.nationalhomeless.org
- Location:
- Washington, DC
Recent News
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Former NCH intern Tony Taylor recently interviewed another former NCH intern, HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan!
Read the full article:
http://streetsense.org/2009/08/hud-chief-off-to-a-running-start/
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The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) and the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) released a report, Homes Not Handcuffs, tracking a growing trend in U.S. cities – the criminalization of homelessness. The report focuses on specific city measures from 2007 and 2008 that have targeted homeless persons, such as laws that make it illegal to sleep, eat, or sit in public spaces. The report includes information about 273 cities nationwide.
Homes Not Handcuffs also ranks the top 10 U.S. cities with the worst practices in relation to criminalizing homelessness.The report also includes information about costs studies examining criminalization measures, constitutional challenges to measures that criminalize homelessness, how criminalization measures violate human rights law, as well as constructive alternatives to criminalization.
To read the full report, follow this link: http://nationalhomeless.org/publications/crimreport/crimreport_2009.pdf
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2009 Foreclosure to Homelessness Report Released June 26,2009
A partnership of national homeless organizations, including the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and the National Policy and Advocacy Council on Homelessness; have release a joint report on the impact of the foreclosure and economic crises and the unprecedented growth in the number of individuals and families left without a home in the United States.
To read the report visit www.nationalhomeless.org or follow this link
http://nationalhomeless.org/advocacy/ForeclosuretoHomelessness0609.pdf
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Former NCH intern Kristen Shaw has won the Maurizio Vannicelli Washington Semester Away program award at College of the Holy Cross for her thesis “What it Means to be Homeless in America.”
http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/press_releases/2008-2009/09_04_06a
Congratulations Kristen!
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Listen to some of the members of NCH and the Faces of Homelessness Speakers’ Bureau online with Andrea Garrison at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onlinewithandrea/2008/08/05/the-faces-of-homelessness-in-america
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