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The National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH), founded in 1982, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to a single mission. That mission, our common bond, is to end homelessness.

Toward this end, the National Coalition for the Homeless engages in public education, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing. We focus our work in the following 4 areas: housing justice, economic justice, health care justice, and civil rights. We take as our first principle of practice that people who are currently experiencing homelessness or have formerly experienced homelessness must be actively involved in all of our work.
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Advocates, activists, service providers, homeless and formerly homeless individuals.

My Blog

2009 Foreclosure to Homelessness Report Released June 26,2009

A partnership of national homeless organizations, including the National Coalition for the Homeless, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, the National Alliance to End Homelessness, the N...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:47:00 GMT

Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act

The HEARTH Act was signed into legislation by President Obama on May 20, 2009. It reauthorizes homeless assistance programs from HUD and USICH. This important legislation was part of the larger Help...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:52:00 GMT

Website Makeover!

The NCH website was recently given a makeover! Among other new features, it is now possible to sign up for the NCH newsletter on directly on the site!Visit us at: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Posted by on Fri, 29 May 2009 09:23:00 GMT

Powerful Initiative

An 11-year-old boy from Tampa, Florida is currently walking 1200 miles from his house to the White House to collect donations and raise awareness about homelessness among children! Read the rest of th...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 07:39:00 GMT

Maryland Hate Crime Bill Signing

On Thursday May 7th, Maryland became the first state to add Homelessness as a protective class to its Hate Crimes Law! NCH's executive director Michael Stoops was present at the signing together with ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Maryland Hate Crime Bill Signing

On Thursday May 7th, Maryland became the first state to add Homelessness as a protective class to its Hate Crimes Law! NCH's executive director Michael Stoops was present at the signing together with ...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 10:58:00 GMT

Support a Living Wage!

Please join us at our nation's post offices when we call for Economic Justice with a Universal Living Wage! The rally will take place on Wednesday April 15th from 4:30 until 6 pm at 1111 20th St. NW i...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:46:00 GMT

Former NCH Intern Wins Award

Former NCH intern Kristen Shaw has won the Maurizio VannicelliWashington Semester Away program award at College of the Holy Cross forher thesis What it Means to be Homeless in America. http://www.ho...
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:55:00 GMT

FACES OF HOMELESSNESS PANEL... ONLINE!!

Check out this site on Tuesday Aug 5 at 1pm EST to hear members of NCH and the Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau speak their minds about the state of homelessness in the US. If you have never hea...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:38:00 GMT

NPR INTERVIEW WITH FACES SPEAKER AND BOARD MEMBER DAVID PIRTLE

CLICK HERE to access Dick Gordon's NPR interview with David Pirtle, NCH's own Faces of Homelessness Speakers' Bureau speaker and Board Member. 
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:50:00 GMT