NCH PROJECTS

The National Coalition for the Homeless sponsors many educational and organizing projects, special campaigns, and annual events. We work to empower homeless people, whose voices are essential to the public policy debate.

The Bringing America Home Campaign
This national, broad-based initiative is dedicated to the goal of ending homelessness. The Campaign is founded on the principles and action of public education, grassroots organizing and support for progressive policies and legislation. It is founded on the principles that people need affordable housing, livable incomes, health care, education, and protection of their civil rights. The Bringing America Home Campaign is composed of a variety of efforts that address these causes of homelessness.

National Homeless Civil Rights Organizing Project
In response to increasing civil rights abuses, NCH is coordinating a locally-based national movement to protect the civil rights of people who are homeless. Find out what you can do to help prevent and combat the violation of homeless people's civil rights.

The "You Don't Need A Home to Vote" Voting Rights Campaign
Since 1992, this campaign has already registered thousands of homeless people in all 50 states. The campaign seeks to protect and promote the right of homeless people to vote.

Hate Crimes/Violence Prevention Project
Over the past several years, advocates and homeless shelter workers from around the country have received news reports of men, women and even children being harassed, kicked, set on fire, beaten to death, and even decapitated. Over the last three years alone (1999 through 2002) there have been 123 murders of people without housing by housed people, 89 victims of non-lethal violence in 98 cities from 34 states and Puerto Rico. The National Coalition for the Homeless calls on Congress for a General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation into the nature and scope of violent acts and crimes that occur against people experiencing homelessness. NCH also supports the Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2003.

National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
Co-sponsored annually by the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week will be held November 11-17, 2007. Here's how you can become involved! *Click here to download the 2007 Awareness Week manual.*

National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day
Since 1990, NCH has sponsored National Homeless Persons' Memorial Day on or near the first day of winter (December 21) to remember our homeless friends who have paid the ultimate price for our nation's failure to address the issue.This year the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) has joined us in co-sponsoring this event. Learn how you can participate in this year's Homeless Persons' Memorial Day. *Click here to download the 2007 Memorial Day manual.*

Universal Living Wage
The Austin, TX-based group Living Wage formula is based on the premise that if a person works 40 hours a week, then he/she should be able to afford basic housing.