Bipartisan members of the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees warned this week that President Donald Trump's proposed $10.7 billion in cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's fiscal 2027 budget would significantly worsen the homelessness crisis.
That would include elimination of the continuum of care program, a HUD initiative that funds local governments and nonprofits to take a community-based approach to eliminate homelessness by creating long-term stabilized housing.
Jennifer Kye, director of federal housing advocacy for Justice in Aging, an advocacy group, said that despite the Trump administration's unsuccessful bid to push last year's housing assistance budget cuts through Congress, the new proposed budget repeated the effort.
"As a whole, HUD is again trying to shift funding away from permanent supportive housing in various ways, for example, changes in funding criteria within the Continuum of Change program," she said.
"They're trying to just also reduce homeless assistance overall and they want to try to eliminate the [continuum of care] program altogether. So I don't anticipate that HUD will stop trying to pursue these changes."
