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RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR HOUSING JUSTICE!

On May 27th, Mayor Bowser released her draft $17 billion budget. While her budget does represent some progress, it simply does not match the scale of D.C.’s homelessness crisis. Now the ball is in the DC Council's court. 

 

We need your help to demand that the DC Council fills the gaps in the Mayor’s Budget by investing an additional $66 million to end chronic homelessness for 2,300 households.

 

Scroll down for 3 ways you can take action with The Way Home Campaign to push the DC Council to end chronic homelessness.

 

1. Email your Councilmembers

2. Submit a quote about why DC should end chronic homelessness

3. Join The Way Home Campaign and follow us on twitter, instagram, and facebook for campaign updates, action alerts, and more! 

1. Email your Councilmembers

Your Councilmembers need to hear from you! Do you have 3 minutes to email them and ask them to fund our budget demands? The more people they hear from, the higher the chance we will push them to end chronic homelessness. Your voice can make a huge difference. Click here to email your Councilmembers.

We have pre-written language you can use if you'd like, so all you have to do is enter your zipcode! Of course, we do encourage you to adapt the language to tell your Councilmembers why you care about ending homelessness in DC. Please adapt our text so that it best works for you.  

Don't know who your Councilmembers are? No worries! Just enter your zip code after you click this link. 

2. Raise your voice and submit a quote!

Your words and thoughts matter and your elected officials need to hear why DC voters expect them to use their budget to end chronic homelessness. Since we can’t physically be together to show how many people want DC to end chronic homelessness, we’re asking you to help us show our power online. Click here to submit a quote which we will share with the DC Council and via social media.

3. Sign up to get updates from The Way Home Campaign

Click here to join our coalition of 107 organizations and 6,000+ voters working to end chronic homelessness in DC! And don’t forget to follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for campaign updates, action alerts, and more!

 

Mayor Bowser, end chronic homelessness

This year, we're demanding that Mayor Bowser invest $100 million to end chronic homelessness for 2,760 individuals and 430 families. We need your help to ensure that Mayor Bowser listens to DC voters and invests in housing justice.
 

We need your help to show Mayor Bowser that DC taxpayers care about ending chronic homelessness. 

This year we are calling on Mayor Bowser to:

  • End chronic homelessness for 2,760 individuals and 430 families, costing $100,000,000
  • Invest in homeless prevention and street outreach
  • Address DC’s low-income housing and eviction crisis by investing in widescale rent and utility relief, the Local Rent Supplement Program (LRSP), Public Housing Repairs, and the Housing Production Trust Fund

Please check out our blog to learn more about our budget demands. 

 

The Mayor's Budget will be released on May 27th. Can we count on you to be an advocate for housing justice?