· We believe that governments/states should recognize the right to housing and shelter as basic human rights and protect these rights.
We believe that governments/states should recognize the right to housing first, over funding for shelters as basic human rights and protect these rights.
· We believe homelessness is the result of governments’ systemic failing to implement the right to housing and adopting a "housing first policy."
· We believe that poverty is the result of governments’ systemic failures.
· We believe homeless individuals should be a protected class under governments’ constitutional laws.
· We believe that the act of government/state agencies in depriving citizens of housing and shelter are gross human rights violations.
· We believe that any ruling government, by right, owes its’ citizens a duty to complete transparency and oversight of local, state, and federal governments and tax-exempt agencies.
· Churches and other religious entities should truly be separated, transparent, operated independently, autonomous, and in no way be subordinate to the civil government.
· We believe that states which pay less than minimum wage in institutional facilities are practicing a form of slavery. This is especially true, giving that:
*New legislation would allow military service in lieu of prison time, so I guess a prisoner could avoid prison by military service, while others are not good enough to make minimum wage.
*Prison firefighters die on their job for such a heroic and dangerous job,
*Individual prisoners owe thousands of dollars in collection debts, restitutions, child support. If they were able to pay off debts while in prison, it will afford greater means of success upon release (significantly lowering recidivism rate of prison return) by giving them life's basic necessities (shelter and housing) which they are otherwise impeded on acquiring (e.g., vehicle, housing & RV rentals and purchases due to poor credit scores.
· We believe the practice of using taxpayers' money to pay towards any pension of any congress member who has been convicted of a felony is unjust and unlawful.
· We believe in living sustainably as stewards to our planet and its biodiversity, holding nature (and all life) as valuable and sacred.
· We believe that through sustainable development that the world’s housing crisis, homelessness, and poverty can be severely alleviated and/or eradicated.
These beliefs listed do not encompass the entirety of our ministry's mindset. Nor are they required to be embraced as a whole.
Nor should they be used as an impediment for those truly seeking true world change in ending poverty, homelessness, and needless suffering.
