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.
Latest action · Aug 13, 2021 Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
Progress
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- IntroducedJul 28, 2021
- Agreed to in HouseNot reached
Summary
This resolution urges the United States to protect the human rights of unhoused individuals, to establish regulations and enforcement tools to protect unhoused individuals from violations of civil and human rights, and to establish blanket legal protections for third parties providing goods or services to unhoused individuals.
The resolution also urges the United States to establish a process to award appropriate damages, attorney's fees, and costs to a prevailing plaintiff in an action alleging a violation of the human and civil rights of unhoused individuals. Relatedly, the resolution urges the United States to allow the court in such an action to consider housing status and apply leniency in compiling records, receipts, and documentation from those plaintiffs.
The resolution also expresses the intention of the House of Representatives to address the unhoused crisis in the United States by providing funding and imposing requirements on the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Cosponsors 31
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 28, 2021 to Sep 13, 2022, with 16 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-IN | André Carson | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-PA | Dwight Evans | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-OR | Earl Blumenauer | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-NY | Jamaal Bowman | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-IL | Jesús G. "Chuy" García | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-NY | Mondaire Jones | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-GA | Nikema Williams | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-NY | Nydia M. Velázquez | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-WA | Pramila Jayapal | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-MI | Rashida Tlaib | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
| D-TX | Sheila Jackson Lee | Original | Jul 28, 2021 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Aug 13, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
- Jul 29, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jul 28, 2021Introduced in House
- Jul 28, 2021Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Education and Labor, the Judiciary, Agriculture, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Jul 28, 2021Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Assault and harassment offenses
- Cardiovascular and respiratory health
- Congressional oversight
- Crime victims
- Criminal investigation, prosecution, interrogation
- Criminal justice information and records
- Defense spending
- Department of Defense
- Emergency medical services and trauma care
- Employee hiring
- Employment discrimination and employee rights
- Executive agency funding and structure
- First Amendment rights
- Government information and archives
- Government trust funds
- Health care costs and insurance
- Health care coverage and access
- Health information and medical records
- Higher education
- HIV/AIDS
- Homelessness and emergency shelter
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing and community development funding
- Housing discrimination
- Housing supply and affordability
- Human rights
- Human trafficking
- Infectious and parasitic diseases
- Internet and video services
- Internet, web applications, social media
- Labor standards
- Landlord and tenant
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Poverty and welfare assistance
- Public housing
- Religion
- Right of privacy
- Self-employed
- Social security and elderly assistance
- Solid waste and recycling
- Student aid and college costs
- Veterans' loans, housing, homeless programs
- Violent crime
- Voting rights
- Wages and earnings
- Water use and supply
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Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jul 28, 2021Introduced in House
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