The National Coalition for the Homeless is working to bring about social change through advocacy, education, and community organizing. This report seeks to address these three areas of social change by advocating for a dramatic increase in affordable and accessible housing, educating local communities and national leadership to the needs and conditions inherent in persistent poverty, and highlighting the variety of community organizing at work within these settlements.
Tent Cities in America, A Pacific Coast Report lays the groundwork for:
• Understanding the diversity and conditions under which tent cities are created
• Comparing various levels of community acceptance, regulation, and governance
• Advocating safe, legal, and effective methods and practices of encampment
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