(WASHINGTON, D.C – November 12th, 2025)

As soon as the federal government reopens, we expect the Trump Administration to implement draconian changes to homeless services funding that will force 170,000 people who are now stably housed back into homelessness. Thanks to federal funding for housing and services,  hundreds of thousands of people from across the country have moved from homelessness into housing. This housing provides them with the stability and support they need to take care of their health, find work, and live with dignity.  Donald Trump's plans will force 170,000 people – largely seniors and people with disabilities – back onto the streets. 

These regressive changes to how federal homelessness support is distributed across the country will destroy the bipartisan and common-sense consensus that homelessness is solved with housing and support. Included in this move are attempts to force cities and states to enact Trump's bigoted dream of making it a crime to be homeless and to discriminate against trans people and immigrants. Let us be clear: Donald Trump's approach to homelessness does nothing to address the sky-high cost of rent, which remains the main cause of homelessness.  Instead, his reckless actions are cruel, backwards, and will force even more people to sleep outside.  

A Harvard study shows that half of renters struggle to pay rent each month. Politicians should be using their power to lower the cost of housing, food, and healthcare. Instead,  they're making it a crime to be poor, sick, or disabled while stripping people of their healthcare. That's shameful and out of touch with the needs of all but the richest Americans.   

Trump's attacks on homeless people are not new. He has long talked of forcing people who can't pay rent into government-run detention camps. Driven by the Palantir-connected, billionaire-run Cicero Institute, the White House is using homelessness as a political football to enact an extremist and racist agenda.  

Energized by Trump's attacks on homeless people, the governor of Utah is working to create the largest government-run homeless detention camp in the country. This heinous atrocity will include over 800 involuntary beds, the likelihood of forced labor, and will be funded in part by defunding proven housing programs to fund a jail-like camp. We've seen this before. At no time in history has forcing people into a camp been acceptable, and this time is no different.  

But there is another way. We need real leaders to focus on proven solutions to homelessness: housing and support. Together, we can ensure that everybody—regardless of what they look like, where they are from, or what they do—has a safe place to call home.