Detroit invests millions to get families into permanent housing

“Our goal isn’t simply to help families leave shelters,” she said. “Our goal is to help them build lasting, long, stable lives and achieve self-sufficiency and ensure that they never return to homelessness again.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/politics-government/2026-07-29/detroit-invests-millions-to-get-families-into-permanent-housing

 

A felony for homeless camping in public? 1 state is making arrests : NPR

Supporters of these laws say they enable public officials to enforce rules that already exist and provide incentive for unhoused people to seek shelter. But opponents call the laws cruel and say that an arrest record only makes it harder for those experiencing homelessness to secure a job or a home...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5887358/tennessee-homeless-arrest-felony-camping-ban

 

Federal judge strikes down HUD’s homelessness policy shift - POLITICO

U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy for the District of Rhode Island, a Trump appointee, wrote in her decision that “the administrative record demonstrates HUD’s failure to consider the harm caused by the funding gaps it created when attempting to eliminate the Housing First approach on an accelerated timeline” and that HUD’s issuance of the policy changes constitutes “arbitrary and capricious action.”… 

McElroy said in her decision that the actions HUD took to “hastily” eliminate the housing first approach in its fiscal 2025 program funding “serve as the hallmark of unreasoned decision making.”

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/30/hud-homelessness-policy-ruling-00981804

 

Trump pledged to house 6,000 homeless vets. His budget funds zero : NPR

" There's no way in hell you're gonna come here and say $500 million is a down payment, and you can't tell me what the actual cost is," Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin said at the hearing. 

"We're not doing this any longer," he said. "This is corruption, and it's gonna stop now."…

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/28/nx-s1-5836556/trump-homeless-veterans-la 

 

Number of homeless people rising statewide — and they're needing shelter longer

"Forty percent are living paycheck to paycheck," she said. "At the same time, we are short over 200,000 units of affordable housing, and wages are stagnant while there's inflation. So what you're seeing is more people becoming homeless. At the same time, folks who have had chronic issues with homelessness, staying longer and having less pathways to self-sufficiency and success."…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/economy/2026-05-12/number-of-homeless-rising-statewide-and-theyre-needing-shelter-longer

 

Upper Peninsula homeless shelter had to exceed its capacity this winter. Things could get worse.

"The folks that were barely making it before are well over the cliff," she said. "They're unable to make ends meet themselves. Everyone is feeling the increase of the cost of housing, of the rising cost of food, the rising cost of gas. There's a crescendo of things that are happening that are weakening people's abilities to survive."…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/economy/2026-05-11/upper-peninsula-homeless-shelter-had-to-exceed-its-capacity-this-winter-things-could-get-worse

 

A shelter village provides a bridge to permanent housing

The Bridge is a fully enclosed campus with a bathhouse and community center. There are 48 tiny sleeping cabins, able to accommodate 56 adults. The shelter village cost $2.7 million. Two-thirds of the funding came from private donations, while the remaining third came from a county grant…

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5719817/a-shelter-village-provides-a-bridge-to-permanent-housing 

 

How Countries Nearly Eliminated Homelessness

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pTInM6_enV0

 

Why are people homeless?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/o9C7DVdrExw

 

WATCH: RFK Jr. and others launch new addiction and homelessness initiative | PBS News

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will also make faith-based organizations eligible for addiction-related grants and expand states' ability to use federal health funding for substance abuse treatment in certain situations involving children, Kennedy said at an annual "Prevention Day" event for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration... 

Yet the announcements come as the administration's actions so far have created uncertainty, fear and logistical challenges for mental health and substance abuse treatment providers around the country…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/watch-rfk-jr-and-others-launch-new-addiction-and-homelessness-initiative 

Vacant California lot was temporary shelter for homeless registered voters, not a sign of fraud

Vacant California lot was temporary shelter for homeless registered voters, not a sign of fraud…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/jan/21/benny-johnson/California-register-to-vote-toilet-no-fraud/ 

 

 

 

Trump's Plan For Homeless Concentration Camps | Jesse Rabinowitz | TMR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUnK4qvtvWU

 

20 states sue the Trump administration over cuts to homeless permanent housing funding - POLITICO

The new conditions placed on the program would also give HUD the ability to deny funding for organizations that acknowledge the existence of transgender or nonbinary individuals. "Communities across the country depend on Continuum of Care funds to provide housing and other resources to our most vulnerable neighbors," said James in a press release. "These funds help keep tens of thousands of people from sleeping on the streets every night. I will not allow this administration to cut off these funds and put vital housing and support services at risk."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/25/states-trump-administration-hud-housing-cuts-00668178 

Homeless People are Being Shot & Lynched AFTER BRIAN KILMEADE SAID "JUST kill them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP9a1rF9Pjk

Fox News host apologizes for ‘extremely callous’ remarks on unhoused people

Calls rose for Brian Kilmeade to be fired after saying people facing homelessness and mental illness should be executed…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/fox-brian-kilmeade-apology-homelessness-comments

 

Fox News Host: ‘Just Kill the Homeless’ 😳 #foxnews #shorts

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jWGjKoZOtdA

Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear – Mother Jones

His speeches on homelessness drip with fear and disgust. His policies are worse...

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/trump-mental-health-housing-homelessness-institutionalization/ 

 

The staggering cost of #Republican #cruelty forced on #taxpayers #homelessness

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qKUc2IUjU-c

 

DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail. – Mother Jones

"In DC, there are, right now, 30 open shelter beds for men and 30 open shelter beds for women… So for all intents and purposes, there's nowhere else for people to go."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/08/donald-trump-homeless-crackdown-dc-national-guard/ 

 

Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work. (Reveal/More to the Story podcast)

This week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration will remove homeless encampments from Washington, DC. It came at a press conference in which he declared a public safety emergency in the nation’s capital, despite violent crime numbers hitting a 30-year low. But the announcement also illustrated something else: The way the country approaches homelessness is rapidly changing.

In July, Trump issued an executive order that not only makes it easier for cities and states to eliminate homeless encampments, but also directs authorities to involuntarily commit unhoused people struggling with mental health issues or substance abuse. The policies represent a dramatic shift away from an approach the federal government has used for years called Housing First, an evidence-based program that prioritizes housing over treatment. Sam Tsemberis first developed the Housing First approach in the 1990s. Tsemberis was working as a clinical psychologist in New York City, where he brought people who lived on the streets into hospitals for treatment, often against their will. He soon realized that many of those people ended up back on the streets, seemingly no better off.

Housing First proved more successful than treatment-first models. It soon became the way cities, states, and the federal government approached homelessness, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, which used Housing First to cut veterans’ homelessness in half over the last 15 years.

But the Trump administration is now abandoning the approach, and Tsemberis says that decision could lead to disastrous consequences for the hundreds of thousands of people who are homeless in America. “People will get discharged from the hospital. They will get released from the jail. And they’ll be back out on the street and the thing will be going in a circle again,” Tsemberis says. “The only way to end homelessness is to provide housing.”

On this week’s More To The Story, Tsemberis sits down with host Al Letson to examine the potential effects of Trump’s executive order, how he developed the Housing First approach decades ago, and whether the US has the necessary values to truly tackle poverty and homelessness.
Interview: 

https://revealnews.org/podcast/homelessness-trump-washington-dc-housing-first-sam-tsemberis/