Trump administration plans mass firing at office that funds homelessness programs

[highplainsdem]

Source: NPR

The federal office that funds housing and other support for homeless people across the country is slated to shrink dramatically, a prospect that advocates warn would make record-high homelessness even worse.

The Office of Community Planning and Development, within the Department of Housing and Urban Development, is slated to lose 84% of its staff, according to a document seen by NPR. That target is the deepest of any office in the agency.

"That proposed cut is massive. And the potential for adverse impact at the community level and at the national level is also massive," said Ann Oliva, who spent a decade at HUD and is now CEO at the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

The same office also funds disaster recovery and programs that help local communities build affordable housing.

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Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/22/g-s1-50199/doge-trump-hud-cuts-homeless-housing-programs

[ananda]

1. Not just anti Obama, also anti Jimmy Carter.

No humanity seems to be the meme of the day.

[Solly Mack]

2. I cheer for a horrible end to these cruel pieces of filth.

[Wuddles440]

6. Same!

Agonizingly slow and excruciatingly painful.

[progree]

3. Homelessness rates have increased 33% in the last 2 years, USA Today, Jan 7, 2025

Jan 2022: 580k, Jan 2023: 650k, Jan 2024: 771.8k
(771.8/580 - 1) * 100% = 33.1%.
So for every 3 in Jan. 2022, there were 4 in Jan. 2024

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143362703

Apparently, that's not enough of a rise.

[sakabatou]

4. Of course they don't a shit about the homeless.

Unless you're a top tier donor, repukes want you to die.

[mahina]

5. Turning up the fire under the pot

He wants us to live in chaos because it serves the purposes of his boss in Moscow

[generalbetrayus]

7. I yearn for the day Muskrat and Orange Julius Caesar find themselves in the same situation

as the Duke brothers. CLICK on ""Watch on You Tube".

[orangecrush]

8. Somebody has to pick fruit and vegetables

To replace the deported migrant workers.

Criminalize homelessness and send them to work camps is my guess.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Fucking bastards. May they all burn in hell whenever they "pass on."

[defacto7]

10. Homelessness is going to explode

for many reasons in the coming months and years due to these repugnant acts the Trump/Musk regime has perpetrated on us. Be prepared for anything.