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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.
