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.
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.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jul 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Jul 28, 2021
Last action Aug 13, 2021
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Total actions
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Aug 13, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight, and Department Operations.
lower
Jul 29, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
lower
Jul 28, 2021
Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support.
lower
Jul 28, 2021
Committee
Referred 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.
lower
Jul 28, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 31 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Cori Bush
DDemocratic
Co
Adam B. Schiff
DDemocratic
Co
Alan S. Lowenthal
DDemocratic
Co
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
DDemocratic
Co
André Carson
DDemocratic
Co
Andy Levin
DDemocratic
Co
Ayanna Pressley
DDemocratic
Co
Barbara Lee
DDemocratic
Co
Betty McCollum
DDemocratic
Co
Bonnie Watson Coleman
DDemocratic
Co
Dwight Evans
DDemocratic
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