Adequate, affordable housing is a basic human need. Yet, tens of millions of low- and moderate-income Americans do not have the opportunity to buy, rent, or build adequate, affordable housing within a reasonable distance from where they work, in many parts of the United States. The economic downturn is increasing those problems.

The Center is a new, charitable legal services organization that provides educational resources and “impact” legal services to reduce homelessness and poverty in the United States, by increasing affordable housing opportunities. It:

• acts as a watchdog organization, to protect efforts to build or preserve needed affordable housing from unjustified interference by exclusionary governmental housing policies
• works to fulfill underutilized state constitutional rights that recently have been found, by the highest courts of numerous states, to require sufficient opportunities for affordable housing

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Center for Social Welfare Under the American Constitutions

P.O. Box 1402

Vienna, VA  22183