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Trump Administration Renews Effort to Link Homelessness Funds to Sobriety Shelters
CalMatters reported that the Trump administration is again seeking to redirect federal homelessness money toward temporary shelters requiring sobriety. A federal judge blocked a similar effort last year. Advocacy groups filed a new court challenge this week.
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The Trump administration is renewing its effort to shift federal homelessness funding away from permanent housing and toward temporary shelters that require sobriety, CalMatters reported. The move would affect programs in California and other states. Last year the administration attempted a comparable change that a federal judge later blocked.
This week the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Santa Clara County filed a challenge in Rhode Island federal court against the latest funding guidelines. More than $4 billion in federal funding is at stake. The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates the guidelines could cost California nearly $238 million for permanent housing and place nearly 15,000 Californians at risk of returning to the streets.
“The ‘housing first’ experiment failed Americans by warehousing the vulnerable without results,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a news release earlier this month. “This ideology promised to end homelessness.
