Fact Sheets

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, advocacy is defined as, “the act of pleading in favor of.” At Homes for Families, our work is to plead in favor of the economically and morally beneficial goal of ending family homelessness in the Commonwealth.

Homes for Families views the community in which it exists as capable of ending family homelessness through direct advocacy with our legislators and other policy makers. Please read the materials below and utilize them in your advocacy efforts when communicating with legislators and the general public.

View the MRVP fact sheet
View the EA (family shelter) fact sheet




“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.”


-Martin Luther King Jr.