REPRESENTING THE POOR AND HOMELESS: INNOVATIONS IN ADVOCACY

• the causes of homelessness as well as solutions
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• microenterprise development
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• affordable housing
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• human rights
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• welfare

• Advocacy and Attribution: Shaping and Responding to Perceptions of the Causes of Homelessness by Gary Blasi, Professor of Law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.


• The Lawyer as Abolitionist: Ending Homelessness and Poverty in our Time by Florence Wagman Roisman, Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis.


• A Community Based Approach by Robert A. Solomon, the Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven, and Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School.


• Housing Out the Poor by John J. Ammann, Associate Professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and is the Director of the Law Clinic.


• "The Possibility of a Beloved Place": Residents and Placemaking in Public Housing Communities by Susan Bennett, Professor of Law and Director of the Community and Economic Development Law Clinic at Washington College of Law, American University.


• Affordable Housing: Can NIMBYISM Be Transformed into OKIMBYISM? By Peter W. Salsich, Jr., McDonnell Professor of Justice at Saint Louis University School of Law.


• Homelessness and Human Rights: Towards An Integrated Strategy by Maria Foscarinis, Executive Director of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.


• Discharges To the Streets: Hospitals and Homelessness by Sidney D. Watson, Professor of Law at Saint Louis University School of Law.


• The New Localism in Welfare Advocacy by Matthew Diller, Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law.


• Tackling Homelessness Through Microenterprise by Susan R. Jones, Professor of Clinical Law at The George Washington University Law School where she also directs the Small Business Clinic/Community Economic Development Project.


• On Abolitionist Critiques, " Homeless Services" Programs, and Pragmatic Change by Lucie White, Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. (Authors)