GSO RESOURCES

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• ​Guilford County Specific Data:

  • Guilford County Homeless Data: 

  • Point in Time - Guilford County

  • IRC - "Facts About Homelessness"

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GREENSBORO's PANHANDLING AND LOITERING ORDINANCES Factsheet

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• Get involved in Progressive Causes in Greensboro: Marching Towards Democracy and Justice for All Website

  • Community Groups​

    • Democracy Greensboro

    • Arts And Culture​

    • Education Equality

    • Environmental Justice and Sustainability:

    • Housing Equality

    • Local Government and Civic Organizations

    • Peace and Conflict Resolutions

    • Racial/Ethnicity and Disability Justice

    • Social and Economic Justice

• Poverty and Demographic Data ​(General/City Specific)​

  • https://datausa.io/profile/geo/greensboro-nc/​

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• Best Practices:

  • Consumer Advisory Boards

    • NHCHC Study​​

    • National Advisory Board Manual​

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• National Campaigns - Poverty and Homelessness:

  • House Keys Not Handcuffs: Western Regional Advocacy Project Homeless Bill of Rights/Right To Rest

  • Housing Not Handcuffs

  • Hunger and Homelessness Awareness​

  • Fight for 15

  • The Poor People's Economic and Human Rights Campaign

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• National Organizations working on Poverty and Homelessness Issues

  • National Healthcare for the Homeless Council

  • U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

  • The Kairos Center for Religions, Rights and Social Justice

  • Food and Water Watch

  • Right to the City Alliance

  • Western Regional Advocacy Project

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• Housing and Homelessness Advocacy:

  • WRAP - Without Housing Report (2010)

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: Homelessness in America: Overview of Data and Causes

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: Public-Property, Public-Need Report

  • NLCHP: Homelessness in the United States and the Human Right To Housing

  • Economic Roundtable: Where We Sleep: Costs When Homeless and Housed in Los Angeles

  • New York: Protecting the Legal Right to Shelter

  • Picture the Homeless: Homeless People Count: Vacant Properties in Manhattan

  • New York: The Housing Not Warehousing Act

  • 2018 Housing Budget Fact Sheet

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• Criminalization of Homelessness Reports and Statements:

• • Department of Justice Statement of Interest in Bell v. Boise Case

  • Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights*

  • Washington, December 15, 2017 

    • Press Conference (see above)

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: Housing Not Handcuffs

  • NLCHP: NO SAFE PLACE: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities

  • Housing Not Handcuffs Litigation Manual

  • NLCHP/United Nations Committee Against Torture Shadow Report

  • NLCHP/United Nations Right to Privacy Violation Report

  • United States Interagency Council on Homelessness: LEADING BY EXAMPLE ON HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS

  • HUD: SNAPS In Focus: The Case Against Laws that Criminalize Homelessness

  • National Coalition for the Homeless: A DREAM DENIED: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF HOMELESSNESS IN U.S. CITIES

  • United Nations: Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Concluding observations on the combined seventh to ninth periodic reports of United States of America* 29 August 2014 (see page 5)

  • United States Department of Justice: Bell v. Boise - US Statement of Interest - August 6, 2015

  • University of Colorado Denver/Denver Homeless Out Loud: The Denver Camping Ban

  • University of Colorado Denver/Denver Homeless Out Loud: No Right To Rest 

  • University of Denver/Denver Homeless Out Loud: Too High A Price: What Criminalizing Homelessness Costs Colorado

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• Videos of Criminalization of Homelessness

  • Denver Police Confiscate Survival Gear

    • Unicorn Riot​

    • https://vimeo.com/193964838

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• • Those People: Our Public Existence​

    • Direct Autonomous Media​

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm3uRBvWo98

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• • Camping Ban Harassments Up 500%!​

    • Get Loud Magazine

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJWiJI_PyKk

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• • DSCN2994 -Video From Denver

    • Thiago Cross

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZYqGi5CVyE

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• • March 8th Sweeps (2016)

    • Get Loud Magazine

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spQhdsvV6SE

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• • Right to Rest Act HB 1191 (2016)

    • Get Loud Magazine

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4fhxKMndqU

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• • CAM00032.mp4 - Downtown Denver

    • Ellen Dellasega

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqri2wsnRkk

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• • CAM00033.mp4- Downtown Denver

    • Ellen Dellasega

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tgBHgsDTJM

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• • Downtown Denver Skid Row

    • Stephanie Marrero

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLhLP9QSV-9bWGNpvSJ4SZzeI28K6I6iQw&v=pzT-5oNNOJE

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• #ResurrectionVillage Tiny Homes - Denver...e Marrero

  • Unicorn Riot

  • https://livestream.com/unicornriot/events/4451996/videos/107072234

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• • YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS POLICE OFFICER SAYS!!!

    • Nathan Reitz

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLFAHy2u4A

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• • July Sweeps 2015

    • Get Loud Magazine

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmi0MgDcJ4

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• • Officer Steinman Steals A Bike

    • Darren O'Connor

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jmyovh5kxw

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• • No Smoking in Boulder (If You're Unhoused)

    • Boulder Copwatch

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FOpx6pIMKM

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• Encampment/Tent City Reports:

  • Tent City USA 2017 - National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty​

  • Dignity Village 2001 and Beyond

• Tiny Homes/ Self Governed Villages​

  • Tent City Toolkit

  • The Village Collaborative​

  • Colorado Village Collaborative

  • Beloved Community Village 

• Homelessness and Education:​

  • National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty: Homeless Education Advocacy Manual: ​

  • NLCHP: NO BARRIERS REPORT (MCKINNEY VENTO)

• First Amendment/Pan​handling Legal Information:

  • A Slideshow from the American Bar Association regarding panhandling law​

  • Permits not required: Blitch v. City of Slidell

  • First Amendment: Strict Scrutiny when regulating content: Reed v. Town of Gilbert (Supreme Court)

  • Cannot create buffer zones, etc. Thayer v. City of Worcester

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• Homeless Data Analysis:​

  • ​Who Counts? Assessing Accuracy of the L.A. Homeless Count

  • The cost of Long Term Homelessness in Central Florida - Report by Rethink Homelessness

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• Information on The Danger of Business Improvement Districts​:​

  • What are BID's (Business Improvement Districts)? Western Regional advocacy Project One Pager​

  • More Information/Articles:

    • http://www.reimaginerpe.org/20-2/clarke-BID2​

    • http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/23/opinion/la-ed-0623-business-improvement-district-20130623

    • https://www.timesledger.com/stories/2015/11/82ndstreet_tl_2015_03_13_q.html

    • http://www.reimaginerpe.org/files/BID%20Census%20synopsis.pdf

    • https://www.planetizen.com/node/71384

    • https://newrepublic.com/article/130188/business-improvement-districts-ruin-neighborhoods