Last month, Trump administration officials announced a long-awaited proposed rule that encourages, but does not require, all public housing authorities and private property owners who rent to people using a Section 8 housing voucher to implement a work requirement and time limits for non-disabled, non-elderly adults in federally-funded housing.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
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‘You want to put me back on the street?’: Advocates brace for deep cuts to ‘Housing First’ programs
“This program and dozens of others around the state may have to shrink or close — and some are already declining to accept new clients — because of a looming change from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development that up-ends a two-decade-old approach to housing policy.”
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Holyoke’s unsheltered homeless count hits new record as threats to federal aid loom
The state and federal funding landscape continues to shift while homelessness in Western Massachusetts has reached unprecedented levels in the aftermath of the pandemic. Holyoke had the highest unsheltered count in all of Hampden County this year, according to preliminary numbers.
