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If the Administration follows through with its current plan to let SNAP run out of funding, many affected families will have to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table, putting them at greater risk of #eviction and #homelessness.

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And if the Administration wanted to solve #homelessness, it should start by urging Congress to expand funding for rental and homelessness assistance, build towards a rental assistance guarantee, and abandon its proposals to gut them. x.com/WillPFischer...

Research Note: Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Provide Over 1.5 Million Uninsured Adults Path to Affordable Health Coverage | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Affordable Care Act expanded access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage for millions of people and has driven the uninsured rate to record lows. Yet, more than 1.5 million uninsured adult...

If the Administration really wanted to increase access to #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse care, it should start by reversing the deep cuts in #Medicaid the President signed earlier this month and help close the Medicaid coverage gap. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

By the Numbers: Republican Reconciliation Law Will Take Health Coverage Away From Millions of People and Raise Families’ Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Republican reconciliation law, enacted on July 4, will take health coverage away from millions of people and dramatically raise health care costs for millions more.

What would *actually* make communities safer is ensuring everyone can access housing and community-based health care. The Administration has done the exact opposite to date. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Policymakers at all levels should reject these cruel and short-sighted approaches, which drain local resources, expose people to trauma, disrupt access to health care, and make it even harder for people to secure permanent housing—the lynchpin to solving #homelessness.

This approach will deepen inequities for folks who have high rates of homelessness like Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ & disabled people. It ignores the fact that many people’s incomes aren’t enough to pay rent and consistently meet other basic needs, forcing more people into homelessness.

The new EO aims to make many unhoused people disappear into “long-term institutional settings” and jails. The EO also seeks to encourage states to fine and arrest people living outside who have nowhere else safe to go.

New HUD Policies Will Disrupt Efforts to Equitably Address Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities March 24, 2025: HUD is imposing harmful new requirements in federal grant agreements under the Continuum of Care (CoC) program — the main HUD program that funds communities’ long-term solutions to hom...

Instead, this EO is yet another step in the Administration’s efforts to pressure states and localities to abandon proven solutions to #homelessness that pair rental assistance with supportive services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

In a nation as wealthy and powerful as ours, we can solve big problems like #homelessness and ensure no one is forced to sleep outside, in their car, or in a shelter. And we can do it while treating people with respect and protecting their civil rights. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

We all want to live in communities where all our neighbors have a safe place to call home and are treated with dignity. But yesterday, Pres. Trump issued an executive order that will worsen #homelessness and punish people simply for being poor and unhoused. This is wrong.

Justice Dept. examines homeless encampments, options for the mentally ill Officials who oversee grants were asked for ideas on clearing homeless encampments and increasing involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.

And 3) Promoting arresting unhoused people, forcing people into psychiatric institutions, and corralling unhoused people not in jail or institutions into government run ‘tent cities’ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Cuts to Health Care, Food Assistance, and Income Support to Fund Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Would Worsen Housing Instability and Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Republicans’ proposed cuts come at a time when more people than ever are being forced into homelessness or are spending more than half their income on rent.

2) Supporting deep cuts to health care and #SNAP – which will increase family expenses and make it harder to keep up with rent – all to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthy www.cbpp.org/blog/cuts-to...

Proposed cuts to housing programs could affect millions, experts warn The White House proposed slashing funding for Section 8 and other federal programs by about 43 percent, saying it will “fix our broken federal housing policy.”

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration’s policies would increase and worsen #homelessness by 1) Slashing HUD staffing and proposing deep cuts to rental and homelessness assistance that solve and prevent homelessness www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Tracking Homelessness Criminalization Emergent Threats is a map that tracks bills across the U.S. that criminalize homelessness and provides information about their origin.

State and local advocates are fighting back, defeating many harmful bills and introducing bills that prevent, halt or reverse policies that punish people experiencing #homelessness. housingnothandcuffs.org/emergent-thr...

We know affordable housing and voluntary supportive services are key to solving and preventing #homelessness, but this wave of harmful state and local bills and the Trump Administration’s policies will make homelessness worse.

The #SCOTUS decision in #JohnsonvGrantsPass set a dangerous precedent for people forced to live outside. Since then, hundreds of state bills and local ordinances have been introduced to punish unhoused people.

Policy Brief: Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Rental Assistance and Supportive Services | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Housing is a basic human need, but stable housing is out of reach or hard to keep for far too many people. This is a policy choice, not an economic inevitability. Evidence shows that we can solve...

Instead, policymakers should build towards guaranteed federal #RentalAssistance and ensure reliable funding to cover community-based services like #MentalHealth, #SubstanceUse, and housing navigation. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

Renters' Incomes Haven't Caught Up to Rising Housing Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Policymakers should stop punishing unhoused people for not being able to afford or find housing. It’s not their fault that renters’ incomes haven’t kept up with rising rents for decades. Homelessness is a policy choice. www.cbpp.org/charts/rente...

Everyone one needs and deserves a safe place to sleep. But one year ago tomorrow, #SCOTUS decided in #JohnsonvGrantsPass that cities/states can fine or arrest unhoused people for sleeping outside even if they have nowhere safe to go.

Household budgets are tight. Cutting #Medicaid & #SNAP will put households already facing unaffordable rents at greater risk of losing their housing & undermine efforts to address #homelessness. We need to make housing & other essentials more affordable, not less!

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You can’t cut hundreds of billions from #Medicaid without harming people. New CBO analysis confirms proposals House Republican have floated would leave millions uninsured, each slashing billions from Medicaid w/ $170b-$472B in cuts coming from lower enrollment . www.cbo.gov/system/files...

President Trumps's new budget reflects yet another effort to misrepresent programs that help support the most structurally marginalized members of our community as “woke.” www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Proven Solutions: Rental Assistance and Supportive Services | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Housing is a basic human need, but stable housing is out of reach or hard to keep for far too many people. This is a policy choice, not an economic inevitability.

We should start with expanding #RentalAssistance – building towards a rental assistance guarantee – and making health care and supportive services widely available. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

In the wealthiest nation in the world, we can ensure everyone can afford a home, including ppl earning minimum wage, ppl w/ disabilities, caretakers of kids and aging family members, and others who too often can’t afford rent w/o sacrificing food, meds, or other essentials.

Cuts to Health Care, Food Assistance, and Income Support to Fund Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Would Worsen Housing Instability and Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Republicans’ proposed cuts come at a time when more people than ever are being forced into homelessness or are spending more than half their income on rent.

The budget does nothing to address the lack of health care and supportive services needed to help people avoid and exit #homelessness. Rather, it cuts #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse care funding, while House Republicans seek devastating #Medicaid cuts. www.cbpp.org/blog/cuts-to...

Meanwhile, the budget puts even more people at risk of #eviction and #homelessness, by cutting $27 billion from #RentalAssistance that helps to prevent homelessness, and by suddenly taking rental assistance away from many people after just two years.

But the budget eliminates the main #homelessness program that funds long-term solutions like permanent supportive housing - the Continuum of Care program - taking housing assistance away from thousands of formerly unhoused people who may be forced back onto the streets.

Policy Brief: Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Rental Assistance and Supportive Services | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Housing is a basic human need, but stable housing is out of reach or hard to keep for far too many people. This is a policy choice, not an economic inevitability. Evidence shows that we can solve...

We need both the long-term solutions that solve #homelessness – #AffordableHousing + supportive services – and short-term supports like shelter and interim housing that keep people safer while they look for permanent housing. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

🧵We all want to live in communities where no one is forced to sleep outside, in a car, or in shelters. The President’s budget would force MORE people into #homelessness.

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