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Friday, April 25, 2008 Philly Nonprofit Helps Homeless Vote, Assert Political Power Project H.O.M.E — a Philadelphia nonprofit that has been showcased on NPAction — was profiled in a story this week by the Philadelphia City Paper. The story reports on Project H.O.M.E’s continued efforts to register and to mobilize homeless Philadelphians to vote. Project H.O.M.E is the leader of the Vote for Homes Coalition (VFH). As reported in the recent article, The idea is to make the homeless a political constituency to which politicians have to cater, and VFH has succeeded in registering more than 12,000 current and formerly homeless and ex-offenders. They estimate that about 3,000 of them have voted in each of the past two elections. Read NPAction’s profile of Project H.O.M.E. |
