Lawsuits Challenge Trump Administration’s Radical Homeless Policy Changes

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by Marisa Kendall, CalMatters

Gov. Gavin Newsom, Santa Clara County and San Francisco are suing the Trump administration over a huge shift in homelessness policy.

California is fighting back after President Donald Trump’s administration instigated homeless housing cuts that local service providers said would be “devastating.”

Two recently filed lawsuits accuse the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development of illegally going over Congress’ head to make massive changes to the way federal homelessness funds are distributed. 

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Bad News for San Francisco’s HUD Housing

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The Trump Administration just released their Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA) for Homeless McKinney funds out of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD). It is as batshit as you can imagine. Really you can’t make these things up.

First of all, for years 90% of the dollars had to go to permanent supportive housing, because there are around 50 evidence-based studies supporting this practice. But these folks don’t believe in science. So now no more than 30% of the funds can go to supportive housing.

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Theft of Our Last Crumb

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by Tiny

The Federal Government’s Attempt to Starve us and the Emergency Need for our Own Self-determined Solutions

SNAP or no SNAP 

These weren’t life sustaining  plans 

Only bits and pieces of a weallthhoarding trap 

To make us feel like we had a life raft 

An option to dying of hunger even tho we all pay their pinche tax

What’s happening republiCRAPS –

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SNAP Crisis: A Timeline

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by Lupe Velez

The last three weeks has been a large-scale humanitarian crisis, with hundreds of thousands of low-income Bay Area residents and millions of Americans being locked out from accessing food.

In mid-October, federal officials announced that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits funds would be halted starting November 1 due to the government shutdown, potentially leaving 48 million Americans without access to governmental assistance for groceries.

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California Braces for ‘Devastating’ Federal Homeless Housing Cuts

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by Marisa Kendall, CalMatters

Thousands of Californians could return to homelessness as the feds reportedly plan to disinvest from permanent housing.

The latest blow in a seemingly endless barrage of bad news for the California agencies tasked with fighting homelessness looms: President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to deeply cut federal funding for permanent housing. 

The news has sent counties throughout California into a panic.

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Trump Threatens to Deploy National Guard to San Francisco—What Does This Mean?

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by Lupe Velez

The Trump Administration, during its short time in power, has waged strategic attacks on nearly every marginalized group in the country. It has slashed funds for health care, education, environmental protections and more. President Trump’s direct attack on the homeless population began in August of 2025, when he deployed the National Guard to clear homeless encampments in Washington, D.C. This followed his executive order on July 24, when he outlined his plan in a press conference to increase sweeps,

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Trump’s Attack on the Movement for Housing for All

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by Cathleen Williams and Sandy Perry

Washington DC, August 12, 2025: “Yesterday, I walked from the White House through the National Mall… The streets are eerily empty for an August afternoon near the storied monuments. In some places, there are more ICE, DEA, ARNG, and FBI personnel than there are regular people. There are fire trucks blocking lanes of traffic for no reason. There are Humvees sitting outside of Union Station for no reason other than to terrorize people–to let *us know that we are being watched…” Facebook post,

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Trump’s New Substance Use Policy Would Have Made My Own Recovery Impossible

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by Apple Cronk

Last month, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14321—“Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” By criminalizing homelessness, addiction and mental health crises, the order strips federal support from lifesaving public health solutions like Housing First and harm reduction—the very policies that saved my life and my daughter’s, and made my nearly three years of recovery possible.

I spent over a decade unhoused in San Francisco.

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America, the New Banana Republic

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by Paul Boden

Let’s be real about what’s happening. The U.S. Government is endeavoring to solidify its long time quest of a fascist dictatorship rule. It’s moving incredibly fast because the structures needed to pull this off have been getting implemented piecemeal and with purpose since the Reagan Revolution in 1980. So now they are ready to rock and roll.

Dictatorships always rely on a militarized police force to rain hell on a scapegoated minority that are “blamed” as the cause of whatever the authorities decide is going to put fear into their base and use that fear to stoke division and prejudice amongst people.

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When Having a Kitchen is More Than I Deserve

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by Tatiana Lyulkin

I became “vulnerable” very late in life, after my parents died in 2014 and in 2016, and I lost what was basically “their” apartment in Daly City in 2017. I’m not spoiled or lazy, just disabled. So with my parents gone, my Social Supplemental Income check is my only source of income. But last month I got a letter from the SSI telling me I was overpaid and I owe them $10,000 because my studio has a kitchen. 

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