Housing & homelessness

ACORN -- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- The nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 120,000 member families organized into 600 neighborhood chapters in 45 cities across the country. Our priorities include: better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. We achieve these goals by building community organizations that have the power to win changes -- through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation. www.acorn.org

Bloody Legislation against the Poor -- http://www.interactivist.net/housing/intro.html

Committee Against Increased Homelessness -- www.nomorehomelessness.org

Common Ground Community -- Creates communities where housing is safe, attractive and affordable with support services, like access to medical and mental health care, job training and job placement. Believes that transitioning out of homelessness requires the entire package, and that's what Common Ground provides in Manhattan. www.commonground.org

Faithful Fools Street Ministry -- Created to be present with and address the existence of poverty in the midst of a booming economy as manifested in homelessness and the deterioration of the quality of life in San Francisco. www.faithfulfools.org

Habitat for Humanity International -- A national nonprofit non-denominational Christian housing organization. We welcome all pople to join us as we build simple, decent, affordable houses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter. www.habitat.org

Jubilee Restore -- Aim is to preserve the essential character of our community and provide answers to suffering persons by working to restore those who are held captive by addictive substances, oppressed by social barriers, disheartened by the lack of affordable housing and those weary in search of mental and physical health services. www.jubileerestore.org

The Housing Project -- Real people breaking the corporate media's spin on the housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.indybay.org/housing/