Call your elected officials today and let know what you’d like them to focus on in 2013. Tell them to make ending homelessness a priority for our country.
poverty
These young adults are the new face of a national homeless population, one that poverty experts and case workers say is growing. Yet the problem is mostly invisible.
The article calls for the need to fund the National Housing Trust Fund and for “a fundamental shift in housing policy” including funding for Housing First.
As New Jersey works to rebuild from Sandy, we need to make sure our politicians consider the impact of policy decisions on ALICE households, as well as the middle and upper class.