[NEWS] HUD funding shift would disregard proven solutions to homelessness and destabilize programs

Our president and CEO, Donna Bullock, writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer today about the proposed changes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed (and has since rescinded) to the formula it uses to fund permanent supportive housing across the country:

Organizations providing homelessness services were thrown into crisis mode last month when the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced an extreme shift in funding priorities.

The department has since withdrawn the notice, but it offered a stark preview of an administration willing to gamble with the futures of our most vulnerable neighbors and the crippling changes that could still be coming — unless neighbors make their opposition known, and lawmakers work to stop it.

HUD’s fiscal year 2025 Continuum of Care Competition Notice of Funding Opportunity brought widespread changes and signaled a drastic shift away from proven permanent supportive housing solutions to combat homelessness in favor of transitional housing.

Read the full piece here.