Reply #80: Homelessness presentatin in Seattle May 16th [View All]

[eridani]

Real Change is proud to sponsor a presentation on federal homelessness policy by Paul Boden, homelessness organizer and Executive Director of the Westcoast Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP.) Join us to learn about the federal government's role in creating homelessness, what we need the other Washington to do to end it, and how you can help make that happen.

Without Housing: Decades of Federal Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures

Wednesday May 16th, 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Ballard Branch, Seattle Public Library
5614 22nd Ave. N.W., Seattle, 98107

Bus and driving directions-- http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=338454489&url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spl.org%2Fdefault.asp%3FpageID%3Dbranch_open_directions%26amp%3BbranchID%3D3

Without Housing documents federal funding trends for affordable housing over the past 25 years. It describes correlation of these trends to the emergence of a new and massive episode of homelessness in the early 1980s that has continued to the present, and also demonstrates why federal responses to this nationwide crisis have consistently failed. It is focused primarily on what we consider to be one of the most important--if not the most important--factors in explaining why so many people are homeless in the United States today: the cutbacks to and eventual near elimination of the federal government's commitment to building, maintaining, and subsidizing affordable housing. www.wraphome.org

Thanks to our neighborhood partners for endorsing this event:

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=338454489&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsustainableballard.org%2F
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=338454489&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumseattle.org%2Findex.php%3Fv%3D1%26amp%3Bpg%3D5

For more information, contact organizer [at} realchangenews.org or call 206.441.3247 x 201.