Carol Fennelly papers

Carol Fennelly, a long-time activist, is Director of Hope House. For seventeen years Carol lived and worked at the homeless shelters operated by the Community for Creative Non-Violence. In that capacity she was responsible for the creation of numerous new programs within the organization, including a drop-in center for homeless people, a medical infirmary for 30 homeless men, and recruitment and overall coordination of seven separate organizations which provided services in the 1400 bed Federal City Shelter. Carol is the architect of the Districts "cooling centers" which have saved lives by providing cool places for indigent people during extremely hot weather. She is founder and president of the Trust for Affordable Housing which built over 350 units of Single Room Occupancy Housing for single homeless people in the District of Columbia. In addition, her reputation as an outspoken and effective advocate on issues of concern to homeless people is well known. Along with Mitch Snyder she designed campaigns which won voting rights for homeless people; won passage of the Stewart B. McKinney bill; won passage of the D.C. Right to Overnight Shelter Act; brought a quarter million people to Washington for the Housing Now! March in 1989; and acquired the old Federal City College along with $13 million in renovation funds to create a model shelter in the nation's capitol. She founded Hope House after spending almost a year writing about the plight of families torn apart by the closure of Lorton Prison.

this history came from the Hope House website. http://www.hopehousedc.org/about/about-us.htm