An Emergency Voucher Keeps This Mother Housed. Without It, She Might Face Homelessness Again. Q and A with Jessica Boykins

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interview by Christian Jiminez

Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) are federal rental assistance vouchers authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to help individuals and families who are homeless, at-risk of homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence. Administered by the department of Housing and urban Development (HUD)through local housing authorities, these vouchers provide long-term, tenant-based rental subsidies for private market housing. The program was intended to run through 2030.

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California Blocks Trump Administration from Withholding Homelessness Funds

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by Marisa Kendall/CalMatters

California scored a legal victory on April 20 that, for now, undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to drastically cut funding for homeless housing. 

Changes that would have diverted huge chunks of federal funds away from permanent housing and funneled them instead into temporary shelters and sober living programs will remain suspended after the Trump administration dropped its appeal of an earlier court loss.

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Medi-Cal Cuts Could Strip Health Care from L.A.’s Homeless

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By Kristen Hwang/CalMatters

A majority of California’s roughly 180,000 people experiencing homelessness have health insurance through Medi-Cal. Providers predict that many will lose insurance under President Donald Trump’s upcoming work mandates even if they qualify for exemptions.

On a brisk January morning, physician assistant Brett Feldman searched the streets of Los Angeles for patients, knocking on car windows and peering into tents. It was the day after a winter storm had doused the city,

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San Francisco PIT Count Changes Will (Still) Likely Lead to Undercount

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by Lupe Velez

Every two years, the City of San Francisco conducts a Point-in-Time Count (PIT) with which it attempts to capture the number of people experiencing street homelessness, as required by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a condition for funding. San Francisco’s latest PIT Count was conducted in the early morning Thursday, January 29.   Historically, advocates and government officials alike have criticized the PIT count for underreporting its figures.

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Sacramento Marches Against ICE and the Murder of Renee Good

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by Cathleen Williams

On Wednesday, January 7, 2026, a cold and wintry dusk closed over Sacramento, California. This was the day that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) killed Renee Nicole Good in cold blood, in her car as she pulled away from the site of an ICE raid in Minneapolis. There were stuffed animals spilling out of the glovebox and a friendly dog in the back seat. Renee’s killing ignited protests across the country. 

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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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