March 17, 2025
The president’s efforts to slash HUD threaten to sink a network of nonprofits and dampen prospects for new development.
Affordable apartments for retired seniors and veterans. Safe shelter for victims of abuse. Sober living for recovering addicts.
These often unheralded programs aren’t ending homelessness on their own, but they are important to stemming the flow of people who may end up on the streets.
And a major lifeline for these initiatives is beginning to sputter and could soon go dark.
By slashing the workforce of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Trump administration has put billions in funding at risk, which means one of the few financial weapons San Francisco has to attack its housing crisis has been crippled.
According to federal spending data, HUD has more than 100 active housing grants in San Francisco, totalling about $326 million.