Anna Bailey (she/her)
@annakbailey.bsky.social
Homelessness, housing, and health policy at CBPP. MSW/JD. Kansan. Thoughts/posts are my own.
Congress should also provide enough funding to prevent over 55,000 additional families from losing Emergency Housing Vouchers. www.cbpp.org/blog/unless-...
Unless Congress Acts, 59,000 Additional Households at Risk of Homelessness
Funding for the Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) program is expected to start running out later this year due to unexpectedly high market rental costs since the program was created in 2021. Without...
www.cbpp.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Congress should also provide enough funding to prevent over 55,000 additional families from losing Emergency Housing Vouchers. www.cbpp.org/blog/unless-...
In addition, Congress should fully fund renewals for HUD’s #homelessness and rental assistance programs, preventing the loss of vouchers for hundreds of thousands of people that would occur under a House proposal. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
House Bill Would Leave Over 400,000 More People Without Stable, Affordable Housing
Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer people.....
www.cbpp.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In addition, Congress should fully fund renewals for HUD’s #homelessness and rental assistance programs, preventing the loss of vouchers for hundreds of thousands of people that would occur under a House proposal. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
This is unacceptable. Congress should require HUD to renew *existing* CoC grants to provide communities with continuity and avoid the inevitable chaos and extreme disruptions to housing and to the services that help hundreds of thousands of unhoused people survive.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is unacceptable. Congress should require HUD to renew *existing* CoC grants to provide communities with continuity and avoid the inevitable chaos and extreme disruptions to housing and to the services that help hundreds of thousands of unhoused people survive.
It could also penalize grantee organizations that try to make programs work for everyone, including people of color and trans and nonbinary people. HUD could dramatically cut funding, or even take funding away from whole communities.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It could also penalize grantee organizations that try to make programs work for everyone, including people of color and trans and nonbinary people. HUD could dramatically cut funding, or even take funding away from whole communities.
The new CoC application promotes rigid one-size-fits-all services that force people to stay homeless or push someone who is stably housed back onto the streets if they can’t jump through arbitrary hoops.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The new CoC application promotes rigid one-size-fits-all services that force people to stay homeless or push someone who is stably housed back onto the streets if they can’t jump through arbitrary hoops.
Instead, HUD is abandoning evidence-based solutions used across the country and weaponizing the CoC program to push more states to adopt counterproductive, cruel policies that punish people for not being able to afford a home. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
State and Local Policymakers Should Advance Policies Prioritizing Stability and Dignity to Solve Homelessness
Our communities are safer when each person has a stable place to call home. Policies that improve access to housing assistance together with robust, voluntary services have been shown to both prevent....
www.cbpp.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Instead, HUD is abandoning evidence-based solutions used across the country and weaponizing the CoC program to push more states to adopt counterproductive, cruel policies that punish people for not being able to afford a home. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
A nation as wealthy as ours could solve #homelessness by expanding rental assistance so it reaches all those who need it, and expanding other services that rehouse people and prevent people from losing their homes in the first place. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
Policymakers Can Solve Homelessness by Scaling Up Rental Assistance and Supportive Services
Housing is a basic human need, but stable housing is out of reach or hard to keep for far too many people. This is a policy choice, not an economic inevitability. Evidence shows that we can solve...
www.cbpp.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A nation as wealthy as ours could solve #homelessness by expanding rental assistance so it reaches all those who need it, and expanding other services that rehouse people and prevent people from losing their homes in the first place. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
HUD’s changes to CoC policy are one part of the Trump Admin’s broader agenda to take away and reduce access to housing assistance at a time when more people than ever are paying more than half their income on rent, leaving little left over for other basic needs.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
HUD’s changes to CoC policy are one part of the Trump Admin’s broader agenda to take away and reduce access to housing assistance at a time when more people than ever are paying more than half their income on rent, leaving little left over for other basic needs.
HUD is forcing CoC grantees(state/local nonprofits)to reapply for funds needed in ‘26 instead of honoring awards announced in January. Grantees have just weeks to grapple with destructive policy changes. The timing alone puts assistance at risk as grantees face long funding gaps.
November 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
HUD is forcing CoC grantees(state/local nonprofits)to reapply for funds needed in ‘26 instead of honoring awards announced in January. Grantees have just weeks to grapple with destructive policy changes. The timing alone puts assistance at risk as grantees face long funding gaps.
And if the Administration wanted to solve #homelessness, it should start by urging Congress to expand funding for rental and homelessness assistance, build towards a rental assistance guarantee, and abandon its proposals to gut them. x.com/WillPFischer...
X
X
x.com
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
And if the Administration wanted to solve #homelessness, it should start by urging Congress to expand funding for rental and homelessness assistance, build towards a rental assistance guarantee, and abandon its proposals to gut them. x.com/WillPFischer...
If the Administration really wanted to increase access to #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse care, it should start by reversing the deep cuts in #Medicaid the President signed earlier this month and help close the Medicaid coverage gap. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
Research Note: Closing Medicaid Coverage Gap Would Provide Over 1.5 Million Uninsured Adults Path to Affordable Health Coverage | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Affordable Care Act expanded access to affordable, comprehensive health coverage for millions of people and has driven the uninsured rate to record lows. Yet, more than 1.5 million uninsured adult...
www.cbpp.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If the Administration really wanted to increase access to #MentalHealth and #SubstanceUse care, it should start by reversing the deep cuts in #Medicaid the President signed earlier this month and help close the Medicaid coverage gap. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
What would *actually* make communities safer is ensuring everyone can access housing and community-based health care. The Administration has done the exact opposite to date. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
By the Numbers: Republican Reconciliation Law Will Take Health Coverage Away From Millions of People and Raise Families’ Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Republican reconciliation law, enacted on July 4, will take health coverage away from millions of people and dramatically raise health care costs for millions more.
www.cbpp.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
What would *actually* make communities safer is ensuring everyone can access housing and community-based health care. The Administration has done the exact opposite to date. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
Policymakers at all levels should reject these cruel and short-sighted approaches, which drain local resources, expose people to trauma, disrupt access to health care, and make it even harder for people to secure permanent housing—the lynchpin to solving #homelessness.
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Policymakers at all levels should reject these cruel and short-sighted approaches, which drain local resources, expose people to trauma, disrupt access to health care, and make it even harder for people to secure permanent housing—the lynchpin to solving #homelessness.
This approach will deepen inequities for folks who have high rates of homelessness like Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ & disabled people. It ignores the fact that many people’s incomes aren’t enough to pay rent and consistently meet other basic needs, forcing more people into homelessness.
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This approach will deepen inequities for folks who have high rates of homelessness like Black, Brown, LGBTQ+ & disabled people. It ignores the fact that many people’s incomes aren’t enough to pay rent and consistently meet other basic needs, forcing more people into homelessness.
The new EO aims to make many unhoused people disappear into “long-term institutional settings” and jails. The EO also seeks to encourage states to fine and arrest people living outside who have nowhere else safe to go.
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The new EO aims to make many unhoused people disappear into “long-term institutional settings” and jails. The EO also seeks to encourage states to fine and arrest people living outside who have nowhere else safe to go.
Instead, this EO is yet another step in the Administration’s efforts to pressure states and localities to abandon proven solutions to #homelessness that pair rental assistance with supportive services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
New HUD Policies Will Disrupt Efforts to Equitably Address Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
March 24, 2025: HUD is imposing harmful new requirements in federal grant agreements under the Continuum of Care (CoC) program — the main HUD program that funds communities’ long-term solutions to hom...
www.cbpp.org
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Instead, this EO is yet another step in the Administration’s efforts to pressure states and localities to abandon proven solutions to #homelessness that pair rental assistance with supportive services. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
In a nation as wealthy and powerful as ours, we can solve big problems like #homelessness and ensure no one is forced to sleep outside, in their car, or in a shelter. And we can do it while treating people with respect and protecting their civil rights. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
July 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
In a nation as wealthy and powerful as ours, we can solve big problems like #homelessness and ensure no one is forced to sleep outside, in their car, or in a shelter. And we can do it while treating people with respect and protecting their civil rights. www.cbpp.org/research/hou...
And 3) Promoting arresting unhoused people, forcing people into psychiatric institutions, and corralling unhoused people not in jail or institutions into government run ‘tent cities’ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Justice Dept. examines homeless encampments, options for the mentally ill
Officials who oversee grants were asked for ideas on clearing homeless encampments and increasing involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
And 3) Promoting arresting unhoused people, forcing people into psychiatric institutions, and corralling unhoused people not in jail or institutions into government run ‘tent cities’ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
2) Supporting deep cuts to health care and #SNAP – which will increase family expenses and make it harder to keep up with rent – all to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthy www.cbpp.org/blog/cuts-to...
Cuts to Health Care, Food Assistance, and Income Support to Fund Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Would Worsen Housing Instability and Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Republicans’ proposed cuts come at a time when more people than ever are being forced into homelessness or are spending more than half their income on rent.
www.cbpp.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
2) Supporting deep cuts to health care and #SNAP – which will increase family expenses and make it harder to keep up with rent – all to help pay for tax cuts for the wealthy www.cbpp.org/blog/cuts-to...
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration’s policies would increase and worsen #homelessness by 1) Slashing HUD staffing and proposing deep cuts to rental and homelessness assistance that solve and prevent homelessness www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Proposed cuts to housing programs could affect millions, experts warn
The White House proposed slashing funding for Section 8 and other federal programs by about 43 percent, saying it will “fix our broken federal housing policy.”
www.washingtonpost.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration’s policies would increase and worsen #homelessness by 1) Slashing HUD staffing and proposing deep cuts to rental and homelessness assistance that solve and prevent homelessness www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
State and local advocates are fighting back, defeating many harmful bills and introducing bills that prevent, halt or reverse policies that punish people experiencing #homelessness. housingnothandcuffs.org/emergent-thr...
Tracking Homelessness Criminalization
Emergent Threats is a map that tracks bills across the U.S. that criminalize homelessness and provides information about their origin.
housingnothandcuffs.org
June 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
State and local advocates are fighting back, defeating many harmful bills and introducing bills that prevent, halt or reverse policies that punish people experiencing #homelessness. housingnothandcuffs.org/emergent-thr...