National Homeless Civil Rights Organizing Project (NHCROP)
The civil rights of people experiencing homelessness are continually violated, whether it be by hate crimes/violence committed against them, or by unjust laws making it illegal to be homeless. NCH is concerned about this illegal disenfranchisement of people experiencing homelessness, and NHCROP exists to protect the civil rights of people in homeless situations. Every year since 1999, NCH has published a report on hate crimes committed on the homeless called Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A Report on Hate Crimes And Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness.. Every two years, NCH also publishes a report on the criminalization of homelessness called A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities. In July 2009 in collaboration with The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, NCH released a report titled Homes not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities.
Read more about this topic: National Coalition For The Homeless, Grassroots Organizing
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