2024 Trash and Treasure Webinar-A Way Home America

What is Trash and Treasure?
Using our 118th Congressional Policy Agenda as the foundation, we hosted a virtual conversation with various speakers on introduced legislation that we found helpful (“treasure”) or harmful (“trash”) for YYA experiencing/at-risk of experiencing homelessness.
As A Way Home America predominately focused our advocacy efforts on Recommendations 4-6 of the Policy Agenda this year, we began this year’s webinar with these.
Disclaimer: We did not mention any specific bill #s or the legislators who authored them; rather, we had a high-level conversation about proposed legislation that would either be helpful - what we call “treasure” - or harmful - what we call “trash” - for Youth and Young Adults (YYA) experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. If you are having a visceral reaction to the title, we invite you into a space of partnership with us to focus on preventing and ending youth homelessness and we can’t do that unless we have an honest conversation about what proposed policies are working or not. Honorable mentions include a plethora of proposals that either (a) have a mix of “trash” and “treasure” in the same bill(s); or (b) do not explicitly mention YYA/are not the lowest access point.