Advocacy & Public Policy
Advocacy Efforts and Campaigns
Project H.O.M.E.'s Public Policy/Education & Advocacy Department seeks to ensure that all members of our community have a voice, especially those who struggle with poverty, mental illness, and/or addiction. We achieve this through leadership development and empowerment activities which engage members of our community in speaking out on the issues affecting homeless and poor persons, and acting to bring about change. We work with a variety of coalitions on city, state, and national levels to impact public policies, educate elected officials, maximize resources for housing and services, and advocate for human and civil rights for persons who are poor, homeless, and/or disabled.
- Facts on Homelessness
Definitions, statistics, and resources. - Allies and Organizations
Websites of other organizations involved in homeless advocacy efforts.
Current Activities
- Election 2006: Vote for Homes! is a nonpartisan effort to mobilize
homeless and low-income voter for the primary (May 16) and general
(November 7) elections.
A voting rights fact sheet [45K PDF],
posters [41K PDF],
coalition sponsorship form [46K PDF],
and other election materials and information are available, or call
Jennine Miller at 215-232-7272 for more information.
- The Philadelphia Campaign for Housing Justice is a coalition developed
to ensure that all market rate developments include affordable units and
commercial developers make a per-square foot payment into an affordable
housing fund. (All beneficiaries must be low- and moderate-income
Philadelphians, with a significant set-aside for disabled persons.) The
Campaign also advocates living wage jobs for Philadelphians who work on
and in these luxury housing developments. Call Jennine Miller at
215-232-7272 for more information.
- Philadelphia's Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness: Creating Homes,
Strengthening Communities, and Improving Systems was created under the
leadership of the Mayor's Task Force to End Homelessness, co-chaired by
Project H.O.M.E. Executive Director S. Mary Scullion and City Managing
Director Pedro A. Ramos, Esq. Project H.O.M.E. and other organizations
throughout the City are partnering with the City of Philadelphia to
further develop and implement the Ten-Year Plan. Read the full version of
the plan [6.6MB PDF] or
the Plan's Executive Summary [97K PDF].
For more information, contact Laura Weinbaum via email or call
215-232-7272.
- Until All Of Us Are Home: The Process of Leadership at Project H.O.M.E. is an ethnographic analysis of the emergence of leadership at all levels at Project H.O.M.E. The stories and photographs compiled for this project tell the story of Project H.O.M.E. from the participants' perspectives. Thanks to Professor Kathleen Hall of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvey Finkle, photographer, for their work on this project. View final report [94K PDF]
