June 2024 Everyone needs a safe and affordable place to live and no one should have to live in encampments. But clearing out encampments without ensuring residents have housing is cruel and ineffective. The recently issued guidance on managing homeless tent communities from the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) misses the mark in key …
Forest Service Police Injured Disabled Family Members Media Contact: Yuderis Verges, info@homelesslaw.org, 202-638-2535 Ext. 110 Washington, D.C. | August 23, 2023 – The National Coalition for Housing Justice (NCHJ) calls on the Biden-Harris administration to stop using federal police to respond to homelessness. In May of this year, undercover U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land …
August 2023 The National Coalition for Housing Justice (NCHJ) is aligned behind seeking housing justice in order to end homelessness, including youth homelessness. The national organizations that make up the NCHJ represent advocates and leaders in national efforts to end homelessness. The coalition condemns the ongoing use of police — at local, state, and federal …
December 21, 2022 New York City Mayor Eric Adams’s recent announcement that the city will institutionalize people who are experiencing homelessness or mental illness without their consent is harmful and inhumane. As a coalition of 14 national housing justice advocacy organizations, the National Coalition for Housing Justice (NCHJ) condemns this action, which is in direct …
As organizations dedicated to ending America’s homelessness and housing crisis, we stand in support of Black people and the Black organizers who are working on housing justice.
