Policymakers should reject the Admin’s approach, which echoes dark chapters of history, & focus resources on what we know works: low-barrier affordable housing & customized, community-based services. These are proven to help a wide range of people access safe, stable homes.
If left unchecked, the Admin’s homelessness policies could pave the way for massive government-run detention camps that would deprive large numbers of people of basic freedom.
The Admin is:
-Promoting cuts to rental assistance, health care, & food assistance;
-Pressuring communities to abandon evidence-based approaches to homelessness & adopt less-effective models;
-Pressuring communities to fine, arrest, or institutionalize people who sleep outside.
This double whammy would cause more people to lose their homes, undermine people’s basic human rights, and drain local resources. In a nation as wealthy as ours, no one should be forced to sleep in parks, cars, jail, or detention camps because they can’t afford a home.
My new paper details how the Trump Admin is pushing policies that 1) take assistance away while making housing *less* affordable and 2) punish people who become homeless because they can’t afford rent. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Research shows rental assistace is highly effective and solving and preventing #homelessness. But, if finalized, this rule would make it harder for unhoused people to use rental assistance. People who would lose assistance will be at risk of #eviction and homelessness.
www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
The 60-day comment period for this harmful proposed rule starts today. If finalized, it will split families apart and take housing assistance away from eligible people at a time when millions are struggling to make ends meet. Learn more here: keep-families-together.org
After Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance at #SuperBowlLX, everyone’s talking about #PuertoRico. But here’s what many might not know about how federal policy affects the territory 🧵👇
The SNAP cuts will also make it harder for ppl to afford rent. They put ppl at risk of #eviction, having to move into substandard or crowded housing, or ending up on the streets or in shelters.
Trump Admin housing policies are also making things worse: bsky.app/profile/anna...
Policymakers should reject the Admin’s efforts to advance these backwards approaches and instead fully fund proven solutions, like those that helped cut veteran #homelessness in half. Otherwise, we can expect homelessness to remain high. www.cbpp.org/media/homele...
The Admin is also pushing policies that punish people for not being able to afford a home, like fining, arresting, and jailing unhoused people with nowhere else to go. Punishment makes it harder for people to get services that help them access housing and health care.
These harmful policies come at a time when many are struggling with affordability, including the high cost of housing. The Admin already cut food assistance that helps people make ends meet and health care funding needed for supportive services, like mental health care.
More harmful policies taking housing assistance away from families are on the horizon: harsh work requirements, arbitrary time limits, and more. x.com/WillPFischer...
Housing is a basic human need. But the Trump Admin is eroding communities’ already limited funding for solutions. One HUD policy alone would take assistance away from more than 170K formerly unhoused people if allowed to move forward by the courts. endhomelessness.org/resources/re...
In the wealthiest nation in the world, evidence-based solutions are in reach: rental assistance that makes housing affordable and voluntary supportive services connecting people to care. It's a policy choice to not make these solutions widely available. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Despite the apparent drop, #homelessness remained near historic highs. We need real solutions, not reckless cuts to underfunded programs that are proven to help people get back on their feet.
As @nytimes reports, we expect data to show #homelessness dropped modestly in the year leading up to Pres. Trump taking office. His Admin’s policies will make things worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...
Visit housingnothandcuffs.org/iceraidresources/ for a variety of information about how to help unhoused people know their rights and stay safe in the face of ICE raids.
It’s not the first time ICE has targeted unhoused people in recent months. Punishing people because they can’t afford rent won’t help them get back on their feet. They need housing and services. Arrest and detention of any sort makes that MUCH harder. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
The best way to mitigate the harm HUD has already caused is for Congress to renew existing funding, giving communities and formerly #homeless people the stability they need.
No matter how HUD changes the funding notice, funding gaps and extreme uncertainty will still disrupt housing and services for formerly and current #homeless people.
As I said to @NYTimes, HUD’s latest move to temporarily withdraw its #homelessness funding notice is just more chaos. Meanwhile, people’s housing hangs in the balance.
Congress should also provide enough funding to prevent over 55,000 additional families from losing Emergency Housing Vouchers. www.cbpp.org/blog/unless-...
In addition, Congress should fully fund renewals for HUD’s #homelessness and rental assistance programs, preventing the loss of vouchers for hundreds of thousands of people that would occur under a House proposal. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
This is unacceptable. Congress should require HUD to renew *existing* CoC grants to provide communities with continuity and avoid the inevitable chaos and extreme disruptions to housing and to the services that help hundreds of thousands of unhoused people survive.
It could also penalize grantee organizations that try to make programs work for everyone, including people of color and trans and nonbinary people. HUD could dramatically cut funding, or even take funding away from whole communities.
The new CoC application promotes rigid one-size-fits-all services that force people to stay homeless or push someone who is stably housed back onto the streets if they can’t jump through arbitrary hoops.
Instead, HUD is abandoning evidence-based solutions used across the country and weaponizing the CoC program to push more states to adopt counterproductive, cruel policies that punish people for not being able to afford a home. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
A nation as wealthy as ours could solve #homelessness by expanding rental assistance so it reaches all those who need it, and expanding other services that rehouse people and prevent people from losing their homes in the first place. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
HUD’s changes to CoC policy are one part of the Trump Admin’s broader agenda to take away and reduce access to housing assistance at a time when more people than ever are paying more than half their income on rent, leaving little left over for other basic needs.