National Homelessness Law Center Statement on Homeless Persons' Memorial Day (WASHINGTON, D.C - December 21st, 2025) The annual Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day is this weekend. This year, like every year, people will gather across the country to mourn those who died without a safe place to call home. In a country as wealthy and as powerful as ours, it is shameful that anybody lives or dies without the dignity of a home. Every death of a homeless person is a preventable policy failure. We can and must do better.   This year’s memorial days feel especially charged. [...]

Trump's new ideological mandates will force 170,000 people back into homelessness (WASHINGTON, D.C - November 14th, 2025) Today, instead of using their power to help people pay rent, access healthcare, or lower the cost of groceries, the Trump administration doubled down on backwards polices that will make homelessness worse. These changes will force 170,000 people- mostly seniors and people with disabilities- who are currently stably housed, back into homelessness. Instead of helping people, HUD’s ideologically driven funding guidelines leverage nearly $4 billion to play political games that will:   Restrict funding from cities that refuse to treat [...]

Trump’s Attacks on Homeless Communities Will Worsen When Shutdown Ends  170,000 people will be forced back into homelessness  (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 [...]

National Homelessness Law Center Condemns Violence and Violent Rhetoric Targeting Homeless People (WASHINGTON, D.C - September 18th, 2025) Everybody needs a safe place to live. But instead of lowering rents and fixing our broken housing system, politicians are setting the stage for violence by cutting funding for vital programs, passing laws that make it a crime to sleep outside, and continually demonizing and vilifying homeless people. Their actions have devastating and fatal consequences.   Three separate incidents within the last week highlight this horrific trend.   Over the weekend, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, on national television, [...]

National Homelessness Law Center condemns Trump’s misguided Executive Order on homelessness Order directs states to treat homelessness and mental illness as a crime, will make homelessness worse (WASHINGTON, D.C - July 24th, 2025) Everybody needs a safe place to live. Across America, sky-high rents are both the leading cause of homelessness and a primary cause of financial stress for most families.  Instead of helping people who are struggling to make ends meet, Donald Trump remains focused on backwards, expensive, and ineffective policies that make homelessness worse. The National Homelessness Law Center strongly condemns today’s executive order, [...]

Trump’s move to evict homeless Oregonians from forest is flashpoint for America’s failure to solve homelessness. Advocates warn of mass displacement and potential police violence. On May 1st, nearly 100 homeless Oregonians will be forcibly evicted by the Trump Administration, setting the stage for possibly the largest federal eviction of a homeless community in recent history. Below are 3 things you can do right now to support people living in the forest Donate to people living in the forest Demand that Trump stop the eviction Click here and here to watch two short videos from people living in the forest [...]

Trump signs Executive Order that will worsen homelessness in DC, violate rights, and waste resources (WASHINGTON, D.C - March 28th) Amidst a national worsening housing and homelessness crisis, Donald Trump has signed an Executive Order that will make homelessness in DC worse, not better.   Trump’s Executive Order directs the Secretary of the Interior to utilize the National Park Service to displace homeless people surviving on federal lands in DC with no plan to house them. Unlike other jurisdictions, the Federal Government controls a high percentage of land in DC, including many small neighborhood parks. DC currently has nearly [...]