Global Homelessness Insights

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...

• Journalistic reporting stresses the judge's rebuke of HUD's "unreasoned" rush away from permanent housing, while advocacy groups highlight...

A clear trend is emerging: cities are turning to punitive enforcement instead of expanding housing as homelessness rises.

• More than 300 U.S. cities...

A new Lancet Regional Health - Americas commentary urges integrated services to cross divides in preventing youth homelessness.

• Measure ULA surpassed $1 billion in revenue by early 2026, funding affordable housing and homelessness prevention.
• Thresholds rose to $5.4M (4%...

Idaho recorded the nation's top housing growth rate of 2.1% in 2025, adding over 17,000 units, yet this still cannot match its rapid population influx...