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Ending Homelessness by 2025: Rights and Support for Unhoused Individuals

This bill aims to end the homelessness crisis in the U.S. by 2025, ensuring fundamental rights for unhoused individuals, including access to housing, healthcare, education, and employment. It proposes significant funding increases for housing and social programs, alongside protections against discrimination and harassment, to improve the quality of life and dignity of vulnerable citizens.
Key points
Ensuring access to housing, healthcare, education, and employment for unhoused individuals without discrimination.
Protecting against harassment and penalties for being in public spaces, and ensuring access to basic amenities like restrooms and water.
Significantly increasing funding for housing programs, shelters, and supportive services, including reallocating funds from the defense budget.
Facilitating access to housing and social assistance for individuals with criminal records and undocumented immigrants.
Implementing more accurate methods for counting unhoused individuals and monitoring the impact of programs on their lives.
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Additional Information
Expressing that the United States is obligated to permanently end the unhoused crisis by 2025 and uphold, protect, and enforce the civil and human rights of unhoused individuals, including the human rights to housing, universal health care, livable wages, education, employment opportunities, access to public facilities, free movement in public spaces, privacy, confidentiality, internet access, vote, freedom from harassment by law enforcement, private businesses, property owners, and housed residents, and equal rights to health care, legal representation, and social services without discrimination based on housing status.
Print number: HRES 568
Sponsor: Rep. Bush, Cori [D-MO-1]
Process start date: 2021-07-28