Organization Details:

Mission Statement:

Picture the Homeless was founded on the principle that homeless people have civil and human rights regardless of our race, creed, color or economic status. Picture the Homeless was founded and is led by homeless people. We refuse to accept being neglected and we demand that our voices and experience are heard at all levels of decision-making that impact us.

Description and/or History:
Picture the Homeless is a grassroots organization, founded and led by homeless people. We are organizing for social justice around issues like housing, police violence, and the shelter-industrial complex. Our name is about challenging images, stigma, media (mis) representation - as well as putting forward an alternative vision of community.

Picture the Homeless is an organization founded on the principle that in order to end homelessness, people who are homeless must become an organized, effective voice for systemic change. We have a track record of developing leadership among homeless people to impact policies and systems that affect their lives and our efforts have created space for homeless people, and their agenda, within the broader social justice movement.

We are a citywide, multiracial, bilingual organization and our constituency includes homeless people living in shelters as well as those living on the streets and in other public places. We serve a broad population of people because homelessness cuts across all boundaries: race, ethnicity, culture, gender, family composition, age, sexual orientation, language, etc., but what all homeless people have in common as a community is extreme poverty and social stigmatization. The vast majority of people in the NYC shelter system are Black and Latino/a, and many of them are women and children.

Contact people:

Cecil Robinson, Administrative Assistant, (646) 314-6423, (email) Sam Miller, Lead Organizer, (646) 314-6423, (email) Lynn Lewis, Executive Director, (646) 314-6423, (email)

Address:

2427 Morris Avenue, 2nd Fl. Bronx, NY 10468 (See a map)

Directions:

Take the 4 train or D train to Fordham Rd. in the Bronx. Walk over to Morris Avenue. Then turn down Morris Avenue, you will see a Blue sign our name and logo. We are on the second floor.