Spare Change, a street newspaper, came after the Housing Now march in 1989. With Peace was committed to continuing something after the Housing Now march. They ran leadership trainings, detailing how to run meetings and how to establish structure. Jobs With Peace also developed the Homeless Civil Rights Project. Solutions and Bread and Jams both started in Cambridge in 1989, with different sets of homeless people.
Solutions is another homeless-led group.
All paid staff are homeless or formerly homeless. It is a unique organization in that the driving force is low income and homeless people, working in every aspect of the organization, from the volunteers to the staff and leadership body. The COH works to alleviate poverty by taking a multi-faceted strategy, attacking the forces that cause poverty from all sides. The strategy combines making sure homeless and poor people know their rights with involving homeless people in the shaping and formulating of public policy. In sum, the Coalition believes that homelessness cannot be alleviated without intensive outreach, support, training, and organizing in order for homeless people to participate in planning and advocacy efforts and in the formation of government and social practices, programs, and policies.