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We are called to restore the self-respect of those who have been humiliated by loss of work or housing. By listening and responding in compassion, our own lives are transformed.

When we work alongside homeless and poorly housed people, we are responding to the challenge to love our neighbour, we are responding to the call to put our faith into action, we are responding to the vision of a society where everyone is valued and everyone has a home.

Resources      
Litany for Shelter [Web]

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Programs and Organizations

National Alliance to End Homelessness www.naeh.org
It includes links to background information, statistics, best practices, age appropriate fact sheets on homelessness for students, and suggests what you can do.

National Low Income Housing Coalition www.nlihc.org

Habitat for Humanity www.habitat.org
Among the many partnerships formed in the NCC Poverty Mobilization is one between theNational Council of Churches and Habitat for Humanity, International.   Habitat is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together with families in need.   Through this partnership, the NCC has become part of what Habitat's director Millard Fuller has called "a new movement," in our time--in many respects like the movement to end slavery in the 19th century--in which "the church of Jesus Christ is in the forefront saying that poverty housing, homelessness, are a disgrace before God."

Department of Housing and Urban Development www.hud.gov

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