Housing and Homelessness

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[edit] Where do Progressives Stand?

  • The most important step that can be taken to help with homelessness is to create a sustainable process to move people out of homelessness permanently.

[edit] Until such a plan is developed it is important to

  • Support state funded shelters, clinics, and food banks that serve the homeless
  • Demand that state provided facilities uphold humane condition requirements of space and cleanliness for all facilities serving those experiencing homelessness.
  • Urge cities to establish more assistance and less punishment for homeless communities.
  • Donate time, money, or food to programs the feed or house the homeless
  • Support after school programs for homeless children
  • Support affordable or free health care including mental health, injury, and drug rehabilitation for the homeless.
  • Support veteran service programs to prevent homeless veterans.
  • Support adult literacy, job training, and placement programs.

[edit] Hot Topics

[edit] Housing

[edit] Legal

Homeless advocacy groups have entitled recent legal crackdowns primarily affecting homeless communities as the “Illegalization of Homelessness”. Currently people experiencing homelessness are being ticketed for camping if they are doing so in parks or public spaces. To contrast, music fans camping outside major concert venues to purchase tickets do so without penalty. Furthermore, people that are homeless have been charged with obstructing sidewalks and passageways when attempting to panhandle. Also, individuals or groups hosting public feedings have been experiencing increased legal crackdown and threats of making public feedings punishable by law. Homeless people often look funny.

[edit] In the News

[edit] Facts and Statistics

  • According to a street count conducted by the Milwaukee Continuum of Care (CoC) at total of 2,440 homeless individuals were identified on a single night in January of 2006. CoC estimates that 1,000 of those individuals remained unsheltered outside of designated homeless shelters, transitional housing, or supportive housing.
  • The Milwaukee IMPACT call center received 16,333 phone calls for emergency shelter in 2005, averaging 1400 calls per month and an 8% increase from the previous year.
  • Between 2002 and 2006, 350,000 more working families became low-income during a period of economic expansion.
  • In 2006, 20% of Wisconsin jobs paid below the poverty level, meaning that 581,000 Wisconsinites lived in poverty that year.
  • The average age of homelessness nationally is 9.
  • 28% of Wisconsin children live in low-income working families.
  • 16% of homeless people have been in foster care, group homes, shelters, or welfare hotels before they were 18.
  • 22% of homeless people are veterans.
  • 20-40% of homeless people work full or part time yet they cannot afford to pay for housing.

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