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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Ungar and Geoff Mulvihill

Trump’s shift from 'Housing First' is causing upheaval for homelessness programs and many they serve

US Supportive Housing Upheaval - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Light streamed through stained-glass windows in a former church, illuminating long white tables where weary men gathered. Johnny Henderson was glad for the rest. The 71-year-old — who has one arm, heart disease and vision problems — slept on the street the night before.

Henderson is a regular at the St. John Center men’s day shelter. So are a great-grandfather in a wheelchair who has prostate cancer, a 54-year-old with four psychiatric disorders and a 66-year-old with a walker who wears a hospital bracelet warning “fall risk.”

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