<!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ --></p> <p>from <a href=""https://calmatters.org/author/marisa-kendall/"" title=""Posts" by="" marisa="" kendall="" class=""author" url="" fn="" rel=""author"">Marissa Kendall</a>CalMatters</p> <figure> <img decoding="async" width=""1200"" height=""800"" src=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/081224_Safe-Sleeping-Site_AH_CM_14.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1"" class=""attachment-post-thumbnail" size-post-thumbnail="" wp-post-image="" alt=""Rows" of="" faded="" red="" tents="" on="" an="" empty="" dirt="" load.="" some="" the="" have="" tarps="" or="" umbrellas="" outside="" to="" protect="" keep="" them="" cool="" during="" hot="" days.="" profile="" unidentifiable="" person="" can="" be="" seen="" as="" they="" step="" into="" one="" tents.="" decoding=""async"" loading=""lazy"" srcset=""https://i0.wp.com/calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/081224_Safe-Sleeping-Site_AH_CM_14.jpg?w=2000&ssl=1" https:="" sizes=""auto,"/><figcaption>Rows of tents at the O Lot safe-sleeping site in San Diego on August 12, 2024. The city of San Diego opened the site in 2023 to offer temporary shelter to homeless residents after it began enforcing its hazardous camping ordinance, which bans homeless encampments. Photo by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters</figcaption></figure> <p>This story was originally published by <a href=""https://calmatters.org/"">CalMatters</a>. <a href=""https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/"">Sign up</a> for their newsletters.</p> <p>The <a href=""https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/"">the Trump administration</a> is renewing its push to change how it funds homeless shelters and housing in California and other states, and several agencies say it could disrupt their services.</p> <p>it <a href=""https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2025/12/homelessness-funding-lawsuits/"">I tried</a> last year to move to federal <a href=""https://calmatters.org/category/housing/homelessness/"">funds for the homeless</a> away from permanent housing and in temporary housing that requires sobriety. The move, which runs counter to the existing ‘housing first’ policy favoring a no-holds-barred approach to housing, was <a href=""https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/04/hud-homeless-lawsuit/"">blocked</a> by a federal judge. </p> <p>Now the Trump administration is trying again. Once again he faces pushback.</p> <p>This week, a group including the National Alliance to End Homelessness and Santa Clara County filed a <a href=""https://endhomelessness.org/media/news-releases/coalition-challenges-latest-efforts-to-politicize-homelessness-funding-grants/?utm_source=Master+Email+List&utm_campaign=73a6604a3c-HUD_LAWSUIT_ANNOUNCEMENT_2025_09_11_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c64c3d31f4-669128977"">a challenge</a> in federal court in Rhode Island to the Trump administration’s latest funding guidelines. </p> <p>“The Trump administration’s callous decision to take another stab at dismantling one of our nation’s most important homelessness prevention programs, after a federal court has already blocked the administration’s first attempt, shows a complete disregard for the people who depend on this funding to keep a roof over their heads,” Santa Clara County District Attorney Tony LoPresti said in a press release.</p> <p>More than $4 billion in federal funding is at stake. The National Alliance to End Homelessness estimates the proposed changes could cost California nearly $238 million in permanent housing and threaten to put nearly 15,000 Californians back on the street.</p> <p>“The ‘housing first’ experiment has failed Americans by housing the vulnerable without results. This ideology promised to end homelessness. Instead, billions of taxpayer dollars were spent while homelessness increased to record levels,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement earlier this month. </p> <p>This article was <a href=""https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/06/homeless-funding-hud-change/"">originally published on CalMatters</a> and is republished under <a href=""https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/"">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives</a> license.</p> <p> Copy the HTML
