CAPITOL SHACKS PROTEST HOMELESSNESS

The Community for Creative Non-Violence erected tarpaper shacks and chicken coops on the lawn of the Capitol yesterday in an effort to persuade Congress to focus more attention on the nation's shortage of housing for low-income people.

CCNV's actions are part of a series of national protests designed to focus attention on homelessness and the need for more affordable housing. Demonstrations are scheduled to take place today in about 65 cities, including Washington.

Mitch Snyder, CCNV leader and a coordinator of the national protest effort, called the structures "representative of the kinds of places a number of Americans are forced to call home."

Snyder said his group's application for a permit to place the shacks near the Capitol was denied, but police made no arrests in the protest.

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