Policy Change

Compass is shaping policy solutions that dismantle barriers to asset building.

As we partner with families to build a pathway out of poverty, we must also do our part to reform the policies that make doing that difficult and to confront the broader conditions that allow poverty to exist and persist.

Our top policy priority is to expand the scope and impact of the federal Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program, including efforts to secure authorization for the implementation of an opt-out demonstration program.

We also support efforts to expand other asset-building programs for families with low incomes, to reform the social safety net, and to deliver reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in America who have suffered under the lingering effects of the institution of slavery and its subsequent manifestations.

Action Alerts

Documents

Statements and Letters

• Comments on Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule (April 26, 2023)

• Statement on FY25 federal appropriations process and letter to appropriators

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