Our dearly beloved friends at Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing invite you and your community to join the 26th Annual Interfaith Convocation and Overnight Vigil for Housing Justice. On Wednesday, June, 1st we will stand alongside them and bear witness to the crisis of the homelessness and those at risk of losing their homes and call for solutions.  WE HOPE YOU CAN JOIN US. 

 

Wednesday, June 1  - 7pm to 8pm   

Interfaith Convocation   

Grace Church  

Broadway and East 10th street 

 

8pm to 9pm  

Procession from Grace Church to City Hall Park

 

9pm to Thursday, June 2, 9am

Overnight Vigil in City Hall Park

 

As crucial decisions are made that effect the lives of those struggling to find or maintain a home, the moral voice of people of faith and compassion must be loud and clear.  As New York City establishes its budget and thus determines how its vast resources are to be allocated, and as New York's rent laws near potential expiration, the Interfaith Assembly invites you to join people of faith and good will, housed and homeless in a call for housing justice for those in our city most in need of affordable housing.  

 

When our elected officials determine the usage of state monies towards the housing subsidies for 15,000 formerly homeless families, the renewal of New York state's rent regulations for 2.5 million rent regulated tenants sunsets on June 15th and decisions are made about the use of housing resources throughout New York City,  your voice is needed.  

 

Be a part of the Interfaith Assembly's  26th annual convocation and witness for Housing Justice for those most in need - Join us as we recognize Father Mark Hallinan, SJ. and Reverend Dr. Charles "Chick" Straut as 2011 Builders of the Blessed City - and Plan to  to be there on June 1, 2011 at 7pm at Grace Church, Walk with us to City Hall - and help support the Assembly's Housing Justice efforts and Homeless Empowerment programs.   

 

To Sign up as a Housing Justice Witness or to sponsor someone who is registered, Log on to www.blessednightout.org and join in Building a Blessed City Together

   

Please invite your friends and other members of your community to join you

 

 

At their 2007 convocation, Picture the Homeleess received the "Building the Blessed City" Award from Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing.