Global Homelessness Insights

Federal Funding Shifts and Legal Challenges

• 🔥 Rhode Island Lawsuit: A coalition filed a 68-page lawsuit in Rhode Island federal court...

Point-in-time counts reveal sharp rises in homelessness across regions, driven by housing affordability.

• St. Charles County: Homeless numbers...

• $3M settlement paid by Step Up for misusing state housing funds never built
• CEO salary $424k and other execs far exceed peer nonprofits despite...

Advocacy and litigation are mounting against HUD's June 1 funding notice shifting priorities away from Housing First.

• Maryland's housing secretary...

Direct cash assistance averaging $3,700 kept nearly 93% of at-risk young adults from accessing homeless services for six months in a multi-state pilot...

Punitive enforcement is relocating homelessness from streets into jails across states.

• Indiana's SB 285 bans public camping with Class C misdemeanor...

Camden Council welcomes the repeal of the Vagrancy Act, ending 200 years of criminalizing rough sleeping in England and Wales. The move shifts focus from punishment toward prevention, person-centred support, and long-term solutions.

HUD's June 2026 CoC guidelines mark its second push to redirect federal homelessness funds from permanent housing toward temporary programs and...

Black Americans make up 13% of the U.S. population yet over 40% of those experiencing homelessness—a gap unchanged by the current crisis and...

California's restored $900M HHAP funding now requires localities to align with state encampment clearing policies and demonstrate measurable progress...

Relaxing section 106 affordable housing quotas on 10-49 home developments could put over half of rural England's new supply at risk, costing 32,000...

US Legal and Policy Developments

• 🔥 San Jose Enforcement Expansion: Supreme Court ruling in Johnson v. Grants Pass enables San Jose to penalize...

Municipal leaders face rising food insecurity from $187 billion in federal SNAP reductions over 10 years and new eligibility rules that have already...

Since the Grants Pass ruling, San Jose has broadened camping restrictions and penalties:

• Extended sidewalk sleeping bans, created no-return zones...

New academic research characterises youth inpatient homelessness in Australian hospitals, exposing a hidden population and its implications for policy responses.

New Zealand politicians routinely dodge questions on homelessness despite Auckland's nearly 600 rough sleepers and just 35 immediate beds. Recent...

• OUD-related ED visits dropped significantly from 79 to 44 after Street Medicine buprenorphine initiation.
• Overdose-related visits fell from 26 to...

US Legal and Funding Developments

• 🔥 Court Vacates HUD Funding Criteria: A federal court struck down the 2025 HUD Notice of Funding Opportunity...

Both Australia and Hong Kong illustrate how policy and market failures in affluent economies entrench housing insecurity.

• Australia: Housing...

Federal Court Rulings on Funding Criteria

• 🔥 HUD NOFO Vacated: A federal court struck down the Trump-Vance administration’s 2025 Notice of...