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Featured: January 20, 2010
A Year in the Battle to End Homelessness

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty saw tremendous victories in the battle to end homelessness last year.
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November 17, 2009
National Forum on the Human Right to Housing
The 2009 National Forum in Washington, D.C. brought together leading advocates for housing and the homeless to share strategies and send a single message: Housing is a Human Right.
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January 13, 2010
Shortchanging Survivors
Despite a federal law that could improve access to Temporary Aid for Needy Families (the major federal welfare program for the poor) for domestic violence survivors, many survivors are being denied this potentially life-saving aid. A new report from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty explains.
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January 20, 2010
Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure
The Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act provides important new federal legal protections for tenants renting housing in properties that are the subject of foreclosure actions.
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Shortchanging Survivors
The Family Violence Option for TANF Benefits

Testimony to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing
Presented at the Nov. 8, 2009 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing

Housing Rights for All: Promoting and Defending Housing Rights in the U.S.
A Resource Manual on International Law and the Human Right to Adequate Housing (4th ed.)

2008 Annual Report

Great Scot!
The Scottish Plan to End Homelessness and Lessons for the Housing Rights Movement in the U.S.