the mitch snyder shelter. who is mitch snyder?as the most famous and the most influential homelessness advocate in american history. advocates play a outsize role in shaping homelessness policy. if it seems to like we as an asian doing something different from what most people would support, that is because most people don't support -- don't follow the issue as intensely as certain advocacy organizations for whom it is their job to follow homelessness policy. they are broadly supportive of accommodating encampments, housing first policies. they are critical of any sort of behavioral requirements in exchange for the receipt of housing benefits. mitch snyder -- schneider was an advocate. in the d.c. scene in the 1980's, he states a lot of spectacular protests -- staged a lot of spectacular protests in washington square and elsewhere in d.c.. a major impact he had, although he had a number, was he federalized the issue quickly. it was not obvious it needed to become a response ability of the federal government as soon as it did. ther