32. Enlist Community Organizations As Advocates
In January 1989 religious-sponsored social justice groups brought several hundred professional and volunteer activists to Washington, D.C. for a conference entitled, "Raising the Roof." Meeting at round tables with congresspeople, they discussed housing issues.
Most of the legislators had never before heard from religiously-motivated people who work the streets and shelters. Not only were they impressed by the step-by-step evaluation of housing legislation, but they also learned that many of their constituents care about this issue out of deep religious commitment. Since the conference, those advocates have lobbied, and when they did, they packed a bigger wallop than ever before. Every person who left that conference and reached out to his or her representative contributed to the passage of the landmark National Affordable Housing Act of 1990.
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