CSWAC

Cause Area

  • Advocacy & Human Rights
  • Homeless & Housing
  • Justice & Legal

Location

10005 GARRETT STVIENNA, VA 22181 United States
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Mission Statement

We remove barriers to affordable housing for low- and moderate-income Americans, through education and law.

  • We take a fresh approach -- working to expand the recent trend of decisions, by the legislatures and/or highest courts of a number of states, to outlaw exclusionary housing policies adopted by local governments.
  • Those policies are "among the principal culprits behind the nation's persistent [housing] affordability problems" (in the words of the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies).
  • Those policies have contributed substantially to problems such as homelessness, poverty, the current subprime lending crisis, and the national financial crisis.

Description

The Center is a new non-profit organization that offers educational and legal services to reduce homelessness and poverty in the United States. The Center:

  1. educates the public about exclusionary housing policies and their correction;
  2. identifies jurisdictions in which rights of low- and moderate-income people to opportunities for affordable housing are being violated;
  3. helps bona fide victims of violations vindicate their rights; and
  4. interacts with legislative and rulemaking bodies to promote appropriate statutes and regulations protecting opportunities for affordable housing.

The Center launched its educational website (http://cswac.org) in November 2008. Its office is in Vienna, Virginia. However, it offers virtual volunteer opportunities, so that volunteers may work from their home or office.

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