A homeless man sits on a street and begs. (Photo by Jub Rubjob/Getty Images)
Many Oklahomans and individuals across the country may soon find themselves in need of a place to call home as nonprofit and community leaders scramble to shift resources and find new funding for housing programs that have been cut drastically and suddenly by the federal government, despite decades of research that support their use.
The policy change, announced in a 128-page notice issued in November by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), marks a generational shift away from a “Housing First” approach supported for decades by HUD’s own data…