"The reversal landed roughly an hour before U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy convened a scheduled hearing on whether to freeze the new rules, which were unveiled last month. McElroy postponed a ruling and set a new hearing for Dec. 19, but sharply criticized the administration's last-minute pivot. It feels like intentional chaos, McElroy said. You can change the policy all you want (but) there's a mechanism for doing so."
"HUD had framed the overhaul to its CoC program as a shift away from the long-standing housing-first model toward transitional housing with work requirements and behavioral conditions. The now-withdrawn overhaul also would have imposed a cap on funding for permanent housing, prohibited grants to organizations serving transgender communities and added new restrictions barring funding for diversity and inclusion efforts, elective abortions, gender ideology and any activity viewed as undermining federal immigration enforcement, Reuters added."
HUD withdrew recent changes to the $3 billion Continuum of Care grant program to assess legal and policy issues raised in multiple lawsuits and plans to release a revised policy before January application deadlines. The withdrawal occurred about an hour before a scheduled hearing on whether to freeze the rules, prompting a judge to postpone a ruling, set a Dec. 19 hearing, and sharply criticize the last-minute pivot as intentional chaos. The withdrawn overhaul would have shifted from a housing-first model toward transitional housing with work and behavioral requirements, capped permanent housing funding, limited grants to transgender-serving organizations, and restricted diversity, abortion and immigration-related activities.
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