The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) is the only national legal advocacy organization dedicated to ending and preventing homelessness. NLCHP’s attorneys go into courtrooms and the halls of legislatures to protect the needs of society’s most vulnerable members. Through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education NLCHP addresses the roots causes of homelessness at the local, state, and national levels.

NLCHP is spearheading an innovative Human Rights Program to incorporate human rights strategies into domestic advocacy focusing on the human right to housing. The organization works to integrate human rights standards into all of its work by integrating its human rights program into its civil rights, domestic violence, children’s rights, and policy programs.

NLCHP also organizes an annual National Forum on the Human Right to Housing and several regional trainings in cities across the country, both of which are attended by a diverse group of participants. Following its regional trainings, the organization continues to work with local partners to identify next steps and implement related advocacy plans. NLCHP also serves as representative of the U.S. Human Rights Network’s Housing Caucus.