Fighting Poverty with Faith is building a nationwide, interfaith movement to cut domestic poverty in half by 2020. The annual Fighting Poverty with Faith mobilization focuses on addressing a root cause of poverty; this year, the theme is “Building Opportunity through Affordable Housing for All” and will run from November 8-November 18, 2012.  Fighting Poverty with Faith is co-sponsored by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Catholic Charities, and the National Council of Churches, and the mobilization is endorsed by over 50 national faith-based organizations.

Fighting Poverty with Faith encourages local communities to plan community-wide, preferably interfaith, events and actions during the week-long mobilization – such as a Habitat for Humanity build, Poverty Simulation, or screening of the 60 minutes special Hard Times Generation – to both educate the community and elected officials about the issue homelessness and the lack of affordable housing options.

Each year, FPWF has an advocacy push; in 2012 we are working to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low income households.