Formerly homeless people, including veterans, could be evicted if Trump administration plan is implemented
Source: CNN Politics
PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2026, 7:00 AM ET
Vietnam veteran Jayson Carter is preparing for his worst-case scenario — having to live out of his car. Carter, a 78-year-old who served in the Air Force, is homeless and staying in a facility for veterans in Memphis, Tennessee. He’s one of more than two dozen veterans at facilities run by the nonprofit Alpha Omega Veterans Services who could be evicted if a plan hatched by the Trump administration, which is being challenged in court, is allowed to go through.
Under the plan, which would affect facilities across the country, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hoping to move many formerly homeless people from permanent housing to temporary transitional housing. Advocates say people could be forced out as facilities convert to transitional housing and take new applicants.
“It would be just disastrous,” Carter told CNN. “I’d be back on the street in my old Buick with no air conditioning.” Carter added that his health challenges would make the predicament even worse. He said he has suffered neurological damage from a series of falls, and that he has end-stage renal disease.
Transitional housing provides short-term shelter to ideally bridge the gap between emergencies and permanent housing for people experiencing homelessness. It is typically offered for up to two years, but homeless advocates say the average length spent in transitional housing tends to be much shorter — only a few months — with many returning to homelessness. HUD informed Alpha Omega and other facilities last year about its plan to shift more than $3 billion in grant funding to transitional housing, leaving the facilities and those living in them scrambling to find alternatives.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/politics/homeless-veterans-evicted-hud-plan
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