Trump tries to end permanent supporting accommodation for chronically homeless people

While President Trump's budget proposal is aiming for significant cuts in expenditure on homelessness programs, the greater effects on changes in the expense of the money would arise.

With the homelessness on record levels, the plan would increase money for emergency accommodation, but would end help for permanent supporting apartments, whereby the focus of a decades of movement is susceptible to society.

More than 300,000 people live in such apartments, all chronic homeless and disabled. Many are veterans. Critics warn that the change would not only prevent the expansion of the constant housing stock, but would also force the evacuations of those who are currently helping to rely on the deep subsidies that remove the budget.

“In contrast to the declared goal of reducing the homelessness of the street, this is in contrast to the street,” said Barbara Poppe, a consultant for local governments that have worked on questions of homelessness in the Obama government.

The Trump proposal would abolish two programs, the long-term living space of the Continuum of Care program and the housing opportunities for people with AIDS financing and bring them to the program for emergency solutions. This program finances short -term accommodations and housing limited to two years.

The proposed reduction of 532 million US dollars amounts to a reduction of around 12 percent of the combined expenses. But none of the remaining money can be spent on long -term apartments that see supporters as the most important safety net.

Three decades ago, a permanent supportive apartment was created as a solution for chronic homelessness, initially with cross -party support. Under a philosophy called Housing First, it offers deeply subsidized apartments and offers – but no customers do not have to accept – services for addiction or mental illnesses.

Proponents say that it saves life by bringing chronically homeless people off the streets where they die with high rates. In recent years, some conservatives have allowed the approach and said that it was not concerned with the underlying problems with which many homeless people are confronted. Some accuse it for the recent diseases in the unmayed population.

Many people come to permanent supporting apartments after a decade or longer on the street. When limiting your housing aid to two years, the Trump plan does not go with the question of what should happen afterwards.