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National Homelessness Law Center
Changing Laws, Changing Lives! We are the only national legal group dedicated to preventing and ending homelessness.
For Pro Bono Week, we want to extend a massive thank you to all the firms in our network of pro bono partners for the work we accomplished together last year. Throughout 2024, 25 firms donated an incredible 5,000+ hours of work.![]()
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Saying 2024 was a big year for the Law Center is an understatement. From the #JohnsonVGrantsPass case and the immense amici efforts to support it, to the Youth Mental Health Legal Guide and the annual update of the State Index on Youth Homelessness (and beyond!), we built power to protect our homeless neighbors and couldn't have done it without the passionate dedication of our pro bono volunte#ProBonoWeeko#CelebrateProBonooBono
TOMORROW: Join us and our partners at @winnyc_org @aclu_nationwide, and Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, for the panel discussion “Ending Homeless Criminalization, Enforcing Human Rights.”![]()
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Register here: parsons.edu/housingjusticelab/2025/09/20/ending-homeless-criminalization-enforcing-human-rights/
TOMORROW: Join us and our partners at WIN NYC, ACLU, and Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, for the panel discussion "Ending Homeless Criminalization, Enforcing Human Rights."![]()
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Register here: parsons.edu/housingjusticelab/2025/09/20/ending-homeless-criminalization-enforcing-human-rights/
NEW REPORT: Criminalization of Homelessness and Mental Health Conditions in the United States, published in collaboration with the UMiami Law Human Rights Clinic. Clinical students worked hard to tailor its analysis to the human rights framework, with case studies of forced commitment schemes across CA, FL, and NY.![]()
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The report examines how civil commitment and forced institutionalization are increasingly used to criminalize unhoused individuals with mental health conditions—an expansion endorsed by the Trump Administration’s July 24 Executive Order. It explores the historical roots of institutionalization, highlights harmful state and local policies, and analyzes violations of international human rights standards. The report also outlines human rights-based alternatives, emphasizing the need to replace law enforcement with health professionals as first responders and to invest in permanent supportive housing and harm reduction strategies![]()
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homelesslaw.org
Human Right to Housing Awards - Honoree Spotlight ✨ ![]()
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We're thrilled to be honoring the nonprofit and nonpartisan newsroom CalMatters, based in California at this year's Human Right to Housing Awards. Over the past year, CalMatters has engaged in a multi-part, multimedia series, spending several months interviewing experts on homelessness, doing a deep dive on all available data and most importantly, visiting encampments to document firsthand how enforcement efforts have displaced unhoused people and the devastating aftermath of these cruel and inhumane sweeps. It is exactly this type of journalistic integrity that our country so desperately needs in this time of misinformation, and we are so grateful for the high-quality reporting that CalMatters is bringing to the homelessness crisis.![]()
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We hope to see you at the Awards in November! Learn more: homelesslaw.org/get-involved/hrth-awards/
