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...

If the Administration really wanted to increase access to #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse care, it should start by reversing the deep cuts in #Medicaid the President signed earlier this month and help close the Medicaid coverage gap. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

What would *actually* make communities safer is ensuring everyone can access housing and community-based health care. The Administration has done the exact opposite to date. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Policymakers at all levels should reject these cruel and short-sighted approaches, which drain local resources, expose people to trauma, disrupt access to health care, and make it even harder for people to secure permanent housing—the lynchpin to solving #homelessness.

This approach will deepen inequities for folks who have high rates of homelessness like Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ & disabled people. It ignores the fact that many people’s incomes aren’t enough to pay rent and consistently meet other basic needs, forcing more people into homelessness.

The new EO aims to make many unhoused people disappear into “long-term institutional settings” and jails. The EO also seeks to encourage states to fine and arrest people living outside who have nowhere else safe to go.

Instead, this EO is yet another step in the Administration’s efforts to pressure states and localities to abandon proven solutions to #homelessness that pair rental assistance with supportive services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

In a nation as wealthy and powerful as ours, we can solve big problems like #homelessness and ensure no one is forced to sleep outside, in their car, or in a shelter. And we can do it while treating people with respect and protecting their civil rights. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

And 3) Promoting arresting unhoused people, forcing people into psychiatric institutions, and corralling unhoused people not in jail or institutions into government run ‘tent cities’ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

2) Supporting deep cuts to health care and #SNAP – which will increase family expenses and make it harder to keep up with rent – all to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthy www.cbpp.org/blog/cuts-to...

Meanwhile, the Trump Administration’s policies would increase and worsen #homelessness by 1) Slashing HUD staffing and proposing deep cuts to rental and homelessness assistance that solve and prevent homelessness www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

State and local advocates are fighting back, defeating many harmful bills and introducing bills that prevent, halt or reverse policies that punish people experiencing #homelessness. housingnothandcuffs.org/emergent-thr...

We know affordable housing and voluntary supportive services are key to solving and preventing #homelessness, but this wave of harmful state and local bills and the Trump Administration’s policies will make homelessness worse.

The #SCOTUS decision in #JohnsonvGrantsPass set a dangerous precedent for people forced to live outside. Since then, hundreds of state bills and local ordinances have been introduced to punish unhoused people.

Instead, policymakers should build towards guaranteed federal #RentalAssistance and ensure reliable funding to cover community-based services like #MentalHealth, #SubstanceUse, and housing navigation. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

Policymakers should stop punishing unhoused people for not being able to afford or find housing. It’s not their fault that renters’ incomes haven’t kept up with rising rents for decades. Homelessness is a policy choice. www.cbpp.org/charts/rente...

We should start with expanding #RentalAssistance – building towards a rental assistance guarantee – and making health care and supportive services widely available. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...

In the wealthiest nation in the world, we can ensure everyone can afford a home, including ppl earning minimum wage, ppl w/ disabilities, caretakers of kids and aging family members, and others who too often can’t afford rent w/o sacrificing food, meds, or other essentials.