Greetings WRAP Supporters, Friends, and Donors!
By bringing together some of the fiercest organizations fighting homelessness, WRAP has developed a unique structure that combines street outreach, movement building, direct action and policy work - all based in the input from those most affected. WRAP has the power of collective mobilization while remaining accountable to the realities of local communities. This gives us the strength, experience, and legitimacy to make ending homelessness a national priority.

WRAP core member groups are at the heart of ALL that WRAP does and WRAP staff work FOR these powerful groups. WRAP groups are, in turn, accountable to their communities. It wouldn’t be right or work if it were any other way. Organizations cannot speak for other people’s communities!

We interviewed some brilliant WRAP leaders we love as part of looking at 40 years of fighting modern-day houselessness, honoring 40 years of Paul Boden’s personal commitment and work, and WRAP’s role for the past 17 years (and into the future) in building power in our communities for the human right to housing! 
WRAP has placed itself as a radical organization in the larger context of people’s movements. Its unique (street) outreach and guerilla art plays an important role to reach out to other movements to join forces with WRAP and move forward on creating a world without homelessness.
WRAP has held down an organizing model that ensures the work they do is driven by what is coming from the streets as member groups are on the streets every day. Because of this WRAP pushes the campaigns for rights and housing that the well-funded national homeless groups who are not connected to the base on the streets will never push. WRAP is not afraid to name when trends like sanctioned encampments are furthering the criminalization of our community, or that “vouchers for all” campaigns do not equate to housing for all, or that we still need the Right to Rest even after being killed in the legislator at least 8 times over 9 years in 3 states. WRAP’s connection to the history of houselessness is critical as our cities and nation continually seem to think they are doing something new, but repeat an endless cycle of treating homelessness as an individual problem and never bringing back public housing at the scale of the need. WRAP plays a vital role in connecting the local houseless fights and doing the labor necessary to fight together for our survival.
WRAP plays an essential role in crafting a united front to end homelessness led by and for unhoused people. WRAP pulls together the research, the messaging, the artwork, and gives the technical assistance to make homeless-led organizations stronger. We have to do the work locally because that is where the abuse is occurring. However, we need that work braided together and that is what WRAP does. Together, all the little fish make a big fish that can tear down the systems of oppression and revolutionize the country's response to homelessness.
2940 16th Street, Suite 200-2 
San Francisco, CA 94103 - Thank you!

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