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Right to Housing Resources

Connect with one of the many organizations seeking to fulfill the right to housing in the United States.

ACORN
The nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families. Campaigns for better housing, schools, neighborhood safety, health care, job conditions, and more.  

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
The leading international organization campaigning for the protection of housing rights and the prevention of forced evictions. Headquartered in Geneva, COHRE works in the U.S. and internationally.

Habitat for Humanity International
Seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Housing Assistance Council
Improves housing conditions for the rural poor and offers services to public, private, and non-profit organizations throughout the rural United States.

National Alliance to End Homelessness
A nonpartisan, mission-driven organization committed to preventing and ending homelessness in the United States.

National Coalition for Homeless Veterans
Dedicated to ending homelessness among U.S. veterans through shaping public policy and assisting service providers.

National Coalition for the Homeless
A national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, as well as advocates, service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness. 

National Health Care for the Homeless Council
A home for those who work to improve the health of homeless people and who seek housing, health care, and adequate incomes for everyone. In the National HCH Council, agencies and individuals, clinicians and advocates, homeless people and housed people come together for support and learning opportunities, and to advance the cause of human rights.

National Law Centre on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP)
NLCHP is the legal arm of the national movement to end homelessness. They focus their activities on litigation, public advocacy, and education.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
Dedicated solely to ending America’s affordable housing crisis. Their website includes extensive state by state data on the nature of the affordable housing crisis.

National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
Committed to ending hunger and homelessness in America by educating, engaging, and training students to directly meet individuals’ immediate needs while advocating for long-term solutions.

Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign
Committed to uniting poor people across color lines to abolish poverty everywhere by promoting the economic human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.