Join the Next Webinar in Our Homelessness and Housing First Series, Hosted by NLIHC, NAEH, and CBPP!
Join the last call in a four-part webinar series hosted by NLIHC, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) on homelessness and Housing First. The call will take place on Wednesday, September 28, from 2:30 to 4 pm ET.
Agenda: “How to Address Unsheltered Homelessness”
- Opening Remarks
- Ann Oliva, CEO, National Alliance to End Homelessness
- Homelessness as a Public Health Challenge
- Debbie Thiele, managing director, western region, Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH)
- Marcella Maguire, director for health systems integration, CSH
- Federal Guidance on Encampments
- Jeff Olivet, executive director, U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness
- Emerging Threats: Georgia
- Dr. Bambie Hayes-Brown, president and CEO, Georgia ACT
- Emerging Threats: Impact on Youth Experiencing Homelessness
- Marcella Middleton, co-director, A Way Home America
- Take Action and Closing Remarks
- Sarah Saadian, senior vice president of public policy and field organizing, NLIHC
Take Action
Use a new advocacy toolkit published by NLIHC to educate your elected officials about the importance of Housing First and the need for robust investments in affordable housing and homelessness resources. The toolkit includes everything you’ll need to engage your elected officials, including talking points, tips for scheduling in-district meetings and tours of affordable housing developments, social media messages, and more.
ICYMI
Did you miss our previous webinars in the series? Check out:
- “Long-Term Solutions and Successful Strategies”: summary, recording, and presentation slides (September 12).
- “Homelessness is a Housing Problem”: summary, recording, and presentation slides (August 29).
- “Emerging Threats Facing People Experiencing Homelessness”: summary, recording, and presentation slides (August 15).
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Decades of learning, experience, and research have proven that Housing First is the most effective approach for ending homelessness. Housing First recognizes that affordable and accessible homes are the foundation on which people thrive, and by combining housing with access to supportive services, Housing First can help people exit homelessness and live stably in their communities.
Urgent action is needed at all levels of government to end America’s housing and homelessness crisis. In communities across the nation, however, some misguided policymakers are responding to this crisis by advancing dangerous rhetoric and harmful, dehumanizing measures that will make it even harder for people to exit homelessness.
It is critical that advocates nationwide are unified in pushing back against stigmatizing and counterproductive efforts that seek to criminalize homelessness, impose punitive requirements, and even prevent the development of affordable housing. As our communities struggle with soaring inflation, skyrocketing rents, increased evictions, and, in many cases, more homelessness, it is more important than ever that advocates work together to advance the bold policies and anti-racist reforms needed to ensure stable, affordable, and accessible homes for all people experiencing and at risk of homelessness.