Anna Bailey (she/her)

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.

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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...

Homelessness Among Veterans Fell As Targeted Voucher Program Expanded

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...

State and Local Impacts of HUD's Housing Cuts: Data Visualization At least 170,000 people nationwide are expected to lose their supportive housing because of HUD’s sudden policy shifts

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...

Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Rental Assistance and Supportive Services 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...

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.

Homelessness Appears to Decline, Reversing a Yearslong Trend

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...

ICE Raid Resources for Homeless Shelters and Service Providers View ICE raids resources, including what to do before, during, and after a raid, know your rights materials, messaging guidance and more.

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.

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...

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.

Unless Congress Acts, 59,000 Additional Households at Risk of Homelessness Funding for the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program is expected to start running out later this year due to unexpectedly high market rental costs since the program was created in 2021. Without...

Congress should also provide enough funding to prevent over 55,000 additional families from losing Emergency Housing Vouchers. www.cbpp.org/blog/unless-...

House Bill Would Leave Over 400,000 More People Without Stable, Affordable Housing Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer people.....

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.

State and Local Policymakers Should Advance Policies Prioritizing Stability and Dignity to Solve Homelessness Our communities are safer when each person has a stable place to call home. Policies that improve access to housing assistance together with robust, voluntary services have been shown to both prevent....

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...

Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Rental Assistance and Supportive Services 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...

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.

HUD is forcing CoC grantees(state/local nonprofits)to reapply for funds needed in ‘26 instead of honoring awards announced in January. Grantees have just weeks to grapple with destructive policy changes. The timing alone puts assistance at risk as grantees face long funding gaps.

🧵It’s official-@HUDgov is slashing overall permanent housing funds by roughly 2/3 in its main #homelessness solutions program–the Continuum of Care(CoC). If Congress doesn’t undo this harmful change, over 170K formerly unhoused people will lose housing assistance next year.

Nobody should have to choose between paying rent or buying food in the wealthiest nation in the world, but that's a reality for many families. Delays and reductions #SNAP will make that worse. The Administration should go further and fully fund November #SNAP assistance.

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...