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MISSION is a
not for profit partnership

between homeless and “homeful” Washtenaw County residents collaborating to support self governing tent communities in Michigan during the ongoing housing and employment crises.  We work to provide a voice to the homeless, and to make tent communities safer and better connected to services so that their citizens can more quickly make their way into more permanent housing, if that is what they want for themselves.  In Ann Arbor MISSION supports the efforts of Camp Take Notice to build and strengthen a community through self-governance and accountability.

MISSION recognizes

that outdoor itinerant shelter, such as tent cities, have persisted throughout America 's history, largely as collaborative grassroots solutions to socio-economic hardship. In this housing crisis, tent cities are growing. They do not go away by ignoring them, marginalizing them, or even prosecuting them.

Our Mission

 The mission of MISSION: Michigan Itinerant Shelter System-Interdependent Out of Necessity is to support and help establish rotating tent cities for homeless people. We see our organization as a partnership, with shared responsibility between the homeless and homefull. Our niche is supporting tent cities that help fill the gap between living on the street and finding more permanent housing. MISSION recognizes that the homeless are empowered through self-governance and care for one another. Through advocacy, MISSION connects the homeless to the general public, and helps provide a voice for those who typically do not have one in our society.

Our Vision

All marginalized homeless individuals deserve human dignity, opportunity for self-sufficiency, recognition of their rights, and re-engagement in society.  Those who are unable, for any reason, to enter a long-term shelter will be able to live with peers in a democratically self-governed, mutually supportive, itinerant tent community, which is supported by the community as part of a comprehensively integrated effort to support the homeless.  There, homeless individuals can assume agency over their own lives as they heal and re-integrate into society at large.

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