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the coh house you.

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build strong alliances and practice good solidarity in order to advance the agenda of addressing homelessness.

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We allow for vulnerability. As open as the unhoused community is with us we strive to be open with each other. Open spaces is a two way street that allows for us and the unhoused community to communicate honestly and identify needs to develop community and action.

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ensure that public funding and energy directed towards a carceral system response to homelessness is redirected towards solutions to poverty and homelessness and must disproportionately benefit the BIPOC/PWD/LGBTQ communities that have been adversely effected.

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Hold the Destiny while Valuing the Journey

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Hold the Destiny while Valuing the Journey

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ensure that we value not just the destiny but the journey.  As we move towards achieving systemic change, that movement must be shaped by inclusion and deliberate practices to ensure disenfranchised  voices are embraced and included.

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apply to me bc/ I am formally homeless, i was drogadict, was in the streets for many years, i was in jail multiple time, i was in jail more in 20 times, , other rizon i was worn in slavery, i have ptsd, multiple times of sexual abuse, the COH make me a safe haven

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increase collective power: ensure members of the unhoused community have seats the table of formal decision making bodies, and that we help facilitate direct access to power.

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garner substantive permanent structural changes that positvely impact homeless people while ensuring in the meantime that fundamental human rights are embraced by the city.

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Not only do we meet people where they are at but we SEE where people are at. We respect everyone comes from a different background and trauma and we respect where they are at. This is a huge foundation for harm reduction. Respect perpetuates a sense of dignity that everyone deserves. Respect is foundational to most values.

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redirect wealth toward the poorest people in out community

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Collective Liberation

We recognize that our liberation is bound up with the liberation of all people and stand in solidarity with other impacted communities. We resist attempts by those in power to turn us against each other in a fight for table scraps.

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Because the COH, collect the voices of the people

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Respect for People, Communities, and Cultures
Commitment to Diversity

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I am not sure whether this is aspirational or not... I want us to have higher standards in a way... maybe to value... to believe that all of us and everyone with us can be excellent... Maybe this is what Miguel had said earlier in our conversation, a value for "learning", for learning every day. To be driven by curiosity and learning on how to be better, be a rising tide to bring everyone up with us, and learn how to better meet our goals every day

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Capitalism as an economic model sucks dry the life and wellbeing of nearly all of us by prioritizing productivity and profit over the needs of the people. There are many different ways to imagine a world without capitalism, and we all work together to challenge and dismantle the current model that sees our value as limited to what we can produce.

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Integrating many aspects of what it means to create systemic change... this is something that is valuable and, well maybe not unique... but definitely less common... where there is access to a wider range of tools and tactics and a wider range of intervention points for systemic change in our toolbox

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The coalition is unique org who value the stability of homeless people

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By centering the voices of the most impacted we develop a community of equity. It allows for a space so that the most marginalized and impacted get room and space to grow, learn, take action, and become leaders. Everyone's voice is valued. By identifying what our individual privileges and biases are and creating space for other voices to be heard we create equity.

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Explicit acknowledgement of the work that is done (e.g. "Thanks for the good job on outreach.")

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"firebrandism": it's definitely the case that this org values being a firebrand. It's a privilege we strive to maintain at great effort that we are able to play that role

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Vital to maintaining healthy relationships among staff, workgroup members, volunteers and "clients."

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have a supportive organization environment that builds on and values the diverse strengths of our staff, and where we hold each other accountable in forms that uplift and move us forward.  We firmly believe the smartest person in the room is the room.

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I was drawn to COH because we are brave about taking direct action and we genuinely value the input and leadership of homeless people. We aren’t obsessed with “respectability politics” but we are strategic when pushing the envelope.

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Carry out all our work with the greatest responsibility and accountability 

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We believe that resources should be funneled into marginalized communities and that every person should be able to access housing, mental health care, drug treatment, healthcare, food, and other means to survive and to thrive. Policing, incarceration, and immigration detention are impediments to the survival and healing of marginalized people, and we work in alignment with the goals of abolition.

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Concsensus decision making

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It's more advocacy-based than "service provider"- based.

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The political landscape changes rapidly, but the pursuit of justice and liberation is a lifelong commitment. We work deliberately to keep our eyes on our vision rather than constantly reacting, and we give ourselves space to take breaks, take care of ourselves and each other, and return to the work at our pace. This helps us sustain our energy for change for the long haul.

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Carry out all our work with the greatest responsibility and accountability

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recognize that homelessness disparately impacts Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities and members of the LGBT community, and that our organizations work must incorporate that intersectionality.

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By providing inclusive community spaces we strengthen skills, educate, and develop leadership to empower those most impacted to take action against oppressors.

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Center the experience of homeless people in our movement and work to effect change.

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Impacted communities are the experts on our own experiences and thus should be the key decision makers when it comes to issues impacting us. In our work that most often means that we center the political visions, perspectives, and priorities of homeless people when working on policies, actions, campaigns etc that impact homeless people. Similarly we center the agency and decision making of people of color, people with disabilities, queer and trans people, women, and survivors.

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watched it this weekend

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Developing spaces for those most impacted to come together and create community. Community allows for inclusion and a place for diverse people sharing similar struggles to have a safe space to not feel isolated in their struggles. For the people, by the people.

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This is how you do this

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It's evident that we seem to value consensus... in our reluctance to embrace too strong of a hierarchical organizational structure... not that hierarchy is necessarily bad, but I sense that we want to walk a line here that acknowledges that but holds on to consensus for decisionmaking, I guess this is inclusivity again in away... and maybe rlated to "centering the people most impacted"

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Centering the people who are most impacted

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Centering the people who are most impacted

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Whatever the issue is, whoever is most impacted is who is at the center. For us, that's the people experiencing homelessness. Any sophisticated solution that we can imagine supporting starts with that. Participatory.

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This is one of MY values, but I can see how CoH sort of (maybe accidentally?) embraces it. I want us to aspire to this... with our street sheet vendors, with people who live in tents, with our housed allies, and with the most stubbonr pricks in city hall or the housed neighbors they listen to. I want us to be able to hold our boundaries with them and say "look, I'm trying to see where you're coming from and I get what you're saying. I'm not interested in making it a personal thing, despite my disagreeing. What I'm here to do is show you that this is the line I can't have crossed. I'm here to find a solution we can both agree on, but this is non-negotiable and conflict will escalate if we go in that direction. I have a whole community of people with me on this.

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Professionalism for us doesn't need to equal traditional business culture... and it doesn't need to be homogenous 21st Century office culture either. We can be a little rough around the edges and appreciate each other, and make people who come into our spaces that are also a little rough around the edges feel more validated. it's okay for them to be themselves, for us to be our selves...

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We aren't a static system or an old dusty code of values... we are a dynamic system that is responsive to the people we are centering, and the environment that we work in... we adapt and change in a collaborative and informed way to take on our challenges and meet them at their scale... I want us to be better at this!

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This does not represent our values. (I think...) But it is an example of how you can upload images to your post to represent ideas, if you want to.

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It seems like if we are going to open the floodgates and be super inclusive, then another consequence of that is needing to do it equitably. If we're bringing people with different power to the same table, we need to be the mechanism that produces equity... which sometimes can mean dampening the voices of those with more power, turnign the voices of disempowered up... paying attention to minority/majority dynamics in general across all points of difference

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It's true that we really are in some ways open to everyone, but then in others we moreso aspire to be inclusive... either way this one seems important