Our community’s federal homelessness funding is in jeopardy.
The federal government has signaled a shift in policy that next year would cut support for long-term housing programs, sending people who struggle with disabilities and who battled homelessness for years back onto the streets.
As of the printing of this newsletter, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) Senate bill would affect the HUD’s Continuum of Care (CoC) funding process, upending decades of best practices, and leaving more than 170,000 people who had previously been experiencing homelessness at risk of losing their housing.
If passed into law, these changes would directly affect 48 households currently served by Share. Hundreds more households that are served by additional local homeless service providers (part of the Clark County Continuum of Care) would also be impacted.
Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown sues over HUD policy that would put more people into homelessness
- About $120 million in these grants comes to Washington annually, with most of it going to the five counties with the greatest need for housing services – King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane, and Clark counties. The remaining $25 million is distributed by the state to Washington’s other 34 counties, which are largely rural.
- The coalition also includes the attorneys general of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Wisconsin, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania.
