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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
This letter informs HUD grant recipients operating emergency shelters and transitional housing programs that all immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are eligible for such services. The letter references relevant laws and regulations.
The workbook focuses primarily on the development aspects and campaign issues, but also includes a first chapter on assessing need and readiness. While the issues in the workgroup are directed at housing trust funds, the community organizing principles are applicable to other causes. The workbook is also a good source of information on the different local trust funds already established.
Examples show what housing trust funds have accomplished and why they are so successful.
Short chapters, with citations to resources, cover the crisis in housing, protecting children, lessons learned from state and local trust funds and economic benefits of a national housing trust fund. Twenty state profiles also provide housing affordability-related statistics and the impact the national trust fund would have on jobs and wages.
This resource page provides basic information on the breadth and success of local and state-based housing trust funds.
Material is broken down by: general housing information, housing policies, housing demographics, fair housing and housing mobility and advocacy organizations working on housing issues.
National and PA stats are listed for the housing market, homelessness, emergency shelter, transitional housing, public housing and housing choice vouchers and homeownership. Pennsylvania resources are broken out by county for transitional housing programs, Pennsylvania housing/redevelopment authorities and Pennsylvania community housing and development organizations. State and national organizations are listed with contact information.
It is an excellent research tool for identifying relevant articles to assist with policy analysis and legal advocacy.
The fact sheet emphasizes the interdependence and indivisibility of civil and political rights and the enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights, including housing. The sheet covers the basic principle of housing as a human right, the entitlements of housing rights, obligations of the international community, clarifications of governmental obligations, and monitoring the right to adequate housing. Annexes to the fact sheet include a list of the legal sources of the right to adequate housing under internal human rights law.
The report operates as a "fact book" and is a wealth of statistics organized around debunking three housing myths: (1) that subsidized housing is unnecessary because left on its own, the market will provide safe, decent and affordable housing for everyone; (2) that today federal government housing subsidies go disproportionately and "unwisely" to "undeserving" low-income renters in urban areas; and (3) that homeownership is the best housing option for everyone, all the time, everywhere.
