Advocacy Against Criminalization and for Humanity

• head of civil rights division vanita gupta delivers remarks at the symposiumon the criminalization of Poverty at University of Michigan Law School, US Department of Justice
• Department of Justice Brief Against the Criminalization of Homelessness, US Department of Justice
• Criminalizing Crisis: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities & Advocacy Manual (pdf), National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in US Cities, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• From Wrongs to Rights: A Case for Homeless Bill of Rights Legislation, National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
• Negative Impacts of an “Urban Camping” Ban in Denver (pdf), Colorado Coalition for the Homeless
• Share No More: The Criminalization of Efforts to Feed People on Need, The National Coalition for the Homeless

• Denver Tent City Proposal (pdf), Denver Tent City Initiative
• Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities (pdf), The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless
• Outlawing Homelessness, National Housing Institute
• Searching out Solutions: Constructive Alternatives to the Criminalization of Homelessness, United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

Denver Resources for the Homeless

• Denver’s Road Home
• Resource list for the Homeless, Denver Road Home

Denver Research About Homelessness

• Denver Vulnerability Index Study (pdf) PDF Format, Denver Homeless Out Loud
• Denver Shelter Assessment 2012 (pdf), National Alliance to End Homelessness
• Denver Vulnerability Index Study (pdf)
• Homelessness in the Denver Metropolitan Area (pdf),2015 Homeless Point-In-Time
• Homelessness in the Denver Metropolitan Area (pdf), 2012 Homeless Point-In-Time Study
• Homelessness in the Denver Metropolitan Area (pdf), 2009 Homeless Point-In-Time Study

Denver Camping Ban Enforcement

• Summary of Street Checks for Illegal Camping (pdf), DPD Report to the Denver City Council on October 9, 2012
• Impact of Enforcement on the Shelter System (pdf), Denver’s Road Home Report to the Denver City Council on October 9, 2012
• Denver Police Department D.R.M.C. 38-86.2 – Unauthorized Camping On Public or Private Property Prohibited
• Denver’s Road Home Response Plan for Unauthorized Camping

Human Rights and Housing

• Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, United Nations
• Without Housing: Decades of Federal Housing Cutbacks, Massive Homelessness, and Policy Failures, Western Regional Advocacy Project