The Trump Administration announced the reversal of its proposed funding allocation in the Continuum of Care Program, which will restore billions of resources for the permanent housing necessary to avoid pushing 170,000 extremely low-income families out to the street. The Administration's withdrawal of its Notice of Funding Opportunity follows significant pressure by housing advocates including San Jose Congressman Sam Liccardo, who rallied 32 colleagues
We write in response to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) reckless and disturbing policy change and funding announcement that could push over 170,000 formerly homeless individuals back on the streets and exacerbate our nation's homelessness crisis, the lawmakers wrote. HUD issued the funding notice Nov. 13. Under the changes, allocations for permanent supportive housing would drop from 86% of CoC funds to 30%.
The support for this type of legislation among PSH tenants has been misrepresented. Based on my conversations, tenants overwhelmingly support having the option to have recovery housing available for those who need it, and that includes myself. I support recovery housing options-but there are plenty of PSH tenants who don't believe that sobriety should be forced and would not be in support of anything that didn't give a harm reduction option.
