Publications: Law and Policy

Advocacy: history, strategies and trends


Housing Not Handcuffs placard held at protest.

Image credit: National Homelessness Law Center

  • Law and Homelessness, in Michele Wakin, Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook (2022)

    ​​Strategies to address homelessness in the Trump era: Lessons from the Reagan years

    Homelessness: Action to End and Prevent the Crisis

    Homelessness, litigation and law reform strategies: a United States perspective​​​

    The federal response: The Stewart B. McKinney homeless assistance act​​

    End Homelessness Now

    ​​The politics of homelessness: A call to action​​

    Beyond homelessness: Ethics, advocacy, and strategy

    ​​Federal Legislative and Litigative Strategies: An Overview

Education rights of homeless children and youth


  • Responding to the school mobility of children and youth experiencing homelessness: The McKinney-Vento Act and beyond

    Removing educational barriers for homeless students: Legal requirements and recommended practice

    Education of homeless children: barriers, remedies, and litigation strategies

    Participation in Public Preschool Programs by Homeless Children

Criminalization of homelessness


  • Tent City, USA: The Growth of America’s Homeless Encampments and How Communities are Responding

    Can I get some remedy: criminalization of homelessness and the obligation to provide an effective remedy

    Out of sight-out of mind: The continuing trend toward the criminalization of homelessness

    Downward spiral: Homelessness and its criminalization

    The criminalization of homelessness: An overview of litigation theories and strategies

    ​​New municipal ordinances regulating homeless people

A group of people holding signs at a rally, including one that reads "Right to Housing Now!"

Image credit: National Homelessness Law Center

The human right to housing


  • Homelessness in America: A human rights crisis

    ​​Housing rights and wrongs: The United States and the right to housing

    The growth of a movement for a human right to housing in the United States

    Introduction to the symposium on bringing economic and social rights home: The right to adequate housing in the United States

    Advocating for the human right to housing: Notes from the United States

    Responses to homelessness: Past policies, future directions, and a right to housing

    The Human Right to Housing: Making the Case in US Advocacy

    Homelessness and Human Rights: Towards an Integrated Strategy

    Shelter and housing: Programs under the Stewart B. McKinney homeless assistance act

    Reentry and Homelessness: Alternatives to Recidivism

    Converting military bases and other vacant federal property to aid homeless people

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