Nonprofit organizations and local governments have joined together to sue the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), aiming to halt drastic changes they say will push hundreds of thousands of people onto the street.
“HUD’s proposed Continuum of Care Program NOFO [notice of funding opportunity] represents a destructive departure from decades of homelessness policy and will put an estimated 170,000 additional households into homelessness,” says Renee M. Willis, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). “These actions will destabilize communities across the country. CoC funding must prioritize evidence-based housing practices, housing stability, and local decision-making rather than undermine them. The harm to families and individuals who rely on these programs will be irreversible and felt for generations to come. Federal policy should fuel stability—not contradict it.”
NLIHC, the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), city of Boston, city and county of San Francisco, and others filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island…