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		<title>The Drifting Dark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I’ll be around. Somehow. I used to fall asleep thinking I wouldn’t wake up. Now I know better. Now I know, honey – it goes on and on and on.” Last February, I wrote about a woman named “V.” She’s a homeless person who sat outside our K Street office for the better part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing the Invisible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too often in our society, homeless persons are devalued, ignored, and treated with much less respect than they deserve. They become accustomed to people walking by with only a disgusted glance in their direction. This lack of acknowledgment is dehumanizing. Earlier this week, advocates in Rhode Island gathered to acknowledge and memorialize the lives of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/02/recognizing-the-invisible/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=recognizing-the-invisible</link>
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		<title>US Issues Human Rights Report, Downplays Housing Rights Violations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday December 30, 2011, the United States Government issued its Fourth Periodic Report on the Implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The report, over 400 pages long, contains numerous references to human rights issues of interest to housing advocates, including: fair housing, foreclosures, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/01/us-issues-human-rights-report-downplays-housing-rights-violations/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=us-issues-human-rights-report-downplays-housing-rights-violations</link>
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		<title>Fed Chair Ben Bernanke Wants to Rent Foreclosed Properties to Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On January 4, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke sent a letter to Congress with a number of recommendations to strengthen the housing market.  Significantly, one of his key recommendations matches what the Law Center has already suggested. Bernanke wants the federal government to create a program that allows currently vacant foreclosed properties, whether owned by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/01/fed-chair-ben-bernanke-wants-to-rent-foreclosed-properties-to-families/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fed-chair-ben-bernanke-wants-to-rent-foreclosed-properties-to-families</link>
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		<title>Homelessness Prevention Programs Working, But Not Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a report put out by the National Alliance to End Homelessness confirmed what we already knew: federal homelessness prevention programs are working, but much more funding is needed. The report shows that, with a modest $1.5 billion in funding, the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) prevented or resolved homelessness for more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/01/homelessness-prevention-programs-working-but-not-enough/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=homelessness-prevention-programs-working-but-not-enough</link>
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		<title>Looking Back &amp; Ahead: The McKinney-Vento Act Turns 25</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends— Thank you for your support and involvement over the past year—and best wishes for 2012.  At the Law Center, we’re diving into important 2012 priorities and, after a year of transition, we’re welcoming new members to our team.  Their fresh perspectives will be critical as we expand our pro bono collaborations to provide [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2012/01/looking-back-ahead-the-mckinney-vento-act-turns-25/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=looking-back-ahead-the-mckinney-vento-act-turns-25</link>
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		<title>Veterans Day a Reminder That There&#8217;s More to Be Done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this Veterans Day, I thought I’d write about why I think ending homelessness for veterans is so important, and really is achievable.  I am not a veteran.  I don’t have any family members who were veterans.  And most of my friends aren’t veterans either. And yet, I’m outraged that even a single veteran is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2011/11/veterans-day-a-reminder-that-theres-more-to-be-done/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=veterans-day-a-reminder-that-theres-more-to-be-done</link>
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		<title>UN: Criminalization Laws Violate Human Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 28, I had the opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking meeting between U.N. officials; leaders of NGOs; and members of the U.S. State Department, Department of Justice (DOJ), and HUD to discuss the criminalization of homelessness and poverty and its human rights implications, as well as strategies for opposing such policies. The meeting, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2011/11/un-criminalization-laws-violate-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=un-criminalization-laws-violate-human-rights</link>
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		<title>The Occupiers: Protesters and Homeless People Share Public Parks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month, decades of economic and social inequity have reached a critical mass with the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement.  Across the country, the self-professed “99 Percent” have organized protests and occupied public parks in opposition of the moneyed interests they believe are decaying America’s middle and lower classes. The protests raise interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2011/10/the-occupiers-protesters-and-homeless-people-share-public-parks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-occupiers-protesters-and-homeless-people-share-public-parks</link>
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		<title>Small Steps Toward the Human Right to Housing in the U.S.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past decade and a half, the Law Center has been working hard to get the federal government to acknowledge housing as a basic human right and begin taking steps to implement its obligations.  As documented in our report, Simply Unacceptable: Homelessness and the Human Right to Housing in the U.S., for many years, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://homelessnesslaw.org/2011/10/small-steps-toward-the-human-right-to-housing-in-the-u-s/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=small-steps-toward-the-human-right-to-housing-in-the-u-s</link>
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