McKinney-Vento turns 25; homelessness still grows By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist Passed in 1987, McKenny-Vento was intended to address the emergency needs of homeless people while the federal government worked to restore the funding which had been ...
16 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Fed up with housing policy By Paul Boden, Contributing Columnist More than 1.46 million households are currently living on less than $2 a day per person in the wealthiest country in the world, more than double what it was in 1996. This shameful fact has h ...
6 Jun 2012 - Street Roots
Criminalizing the homeless costs us all By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer The Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP) and the USA-Canada Alliance of Inhabitants (USACAI) are calling on our members and allies throughout the United States and Canada to jo ...
1 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
We dare you to look inside HUD's budget cuts! While the Obama Administration continues to tout ending homelessness, the realities speak for themselves. Our partners at the Western Regional Advocacy Project based in San Fransisco have come up with a U ...
21 Dec 2011 - Street Roots
The Occupy Homeless Movement From the artist, Ronnie Goodman: “The print I call The Occupy Homeless Movement is about the persecution of being homeless. It’s also about my life having to deal with rats and bedbugs that you may encounter being homeless. Bu ...
30 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Reflections from the frontlines, armed with empowerment The Great American TARP Tour was a session of workshops and demonstrations organized by the Western Regional Advocacy Project. Volunteers and staff from Street Roots and Sisters of the Road participa ...
15 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
The quality of whose life? The zero-sum game. Part II A panhandler on Powell Street in San Francisco. Photo by BrokenSphere/Wikimedia Commons The second in a four-part series on the country’s modern anti-poor movement By Paul Boden, Contributing Writer Wh ...
17 Dec 2010 - Street Roots
We want our 30% set aside, already! Sisters Of The Road, Street Roots, Downtown Chapel, Community Alliance of Tenants, and the Western Regional Advocacy Project hosted a vigil late this afternoon on the site of the North Macadam development, block 33, to ...
31 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
Join us in S.F. to demand affordable housing and civil rights! Sisters Of The Road and Street Roots are founding members of the Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). Our mission is to build a movement that is based in the experience of people with ex ...
17 Nov 2009 - Street Roots