HUD filed its reply in the First Circuit on August 24, completing briefing on its emergency motion to stay the order vacating the FY2026 Continuum of Care NOFO; the court, which said it intends to rule promptly, had not ruled as of Monday evening. The San Diego City Council repealed 2022's Measure C, the voter-approved Midway District height-limit exemption a judge invalidated, a change that affects the 4,254-apartment Midway Rising project. In Seattle, Councilmember Dan Strauss's RV legislation package allocates $5 million and pairs a one-time permit program with a midnight-to-6-a.m. parking ban, with enforcement to begin by July 31 of next year. CalMatters reported that of the 28 California counties or continuums of care releasing preliminary 2026 point-in-time data, more than half showed declines. Seven federal agencies, including HUD and the FHFA, rescinded the 2022 interagency statement that encouraged special purpose credit programs under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.
Multnomah County Commissioner Shannon Singleton announced endorsements in the county chair race from SEIU Local 503, the Portland Association of Teachers, the Sierra Club, Basic Rights Oregon, Latino Network Action Fund, and the Oregon Working Families Party. Willamette Week reported that SEIU's was a dual endorsement with rival Julia Brim-Edwards, recommending voters rank Brim-Edwards first and Singleton second.
AFSCME Local 88, the county's largest employee union, endorsed Brim-Edwards on August 21, and the Oregon Nurses Association endorsed her on August 18.
The Oregonian/OregonLive · 2026-08-20 · on an exit interview with departing Portland Solutions director Skyler Brocker-Knapp
The Oregonian published an exit interview with Skyler Brocker-Knapp, the departing director of Portland Solutions, who has run the operational side of the city's shelter expansion under Mayors Wheeler and Wilson since 2021. The paper described the city-county partnership as deeply strained when she joined in 2021; Brocker-Knapp said of the relationship now, "I think we're at a really good place," and said the regional homeless services tax "has provided a lot of really important money to a system that desperately needed it" while adding changes could be made to it, including recognizing the role cities play in the region.
The Oregonian reported Brocker-Knapp's planned departure on August 12.
Sea Mar Community Health Centers and the Washington State Health Care Authority's HCV-ElimiNATION mobile unit began bringing hepatitis C testing and treatment directly to homeless residents in Clark County. The Columbian, citing the National Institutes of Health, reported infection is found in up to 44 percent of the U.S. homeless population, compared with about 2 percent of the general population; Sea Mar clinical director Tony Stupski named transportation, the lack of a permanent address, and nowhere secure to store a two-month course of medication as barriers.
A national study found people with unstable housing are 40 percent less likely to initiate hepatitis C treatment than people with stable housing.
The San Diego City Council on Monday repealed 2022's Measure C, which had exempted the Midway District from the city's 30-foot coastal height limit until a judge invalidated the measure on environmental-review grounds; Councilmember Jennifer Campbell said the city had to comply or face contempt fines after the California Supreme Court declined to take the case. The repeal affects Midway Rising, the plan to redevelop the 48.5-acre Sports Arena property with a new arena and 4,254 apartments, 2,000 of them affordable to low-income renters; a bill from state Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson to shield the project from future environmental lawsuits needs two-thirds majorities in both chambers by August 31.
A similar Midway height-limit measure approved by voters in 2020 was also overturned in court; in both cases judges found the city had not analyzed the environmental impacts of taller buildings.
Councilmember Dan Strauss's RV legislation package allocates $5 million — $1.5 million one-time and $3.5 million ongoing — and funds eight new positions, pairing a one-time permit program for people living in RVs with a ban on RV street parking from midnight to 6 a.m. and a two-hour daytime limit. Permit holders could decline up to six shelter or housing offers before losing the permit; the city's Unified Care Team has tallied 145 vehicles meeting the program's definition, a figure Strauss said he believes is an undercount. The package sets an April 30 deadline to stand up the permit program and parking restrictions, with enforcement beginning by July 31.
Strauss said he expects the public safety committee to discuss the package again on or before September 22; one safe-parking lot, Glassyard Commons in West Seattle, opens in November.
CalMatters compiled preliminary results from January 2026 point-in-time counts and reported that of the 28 counties or continuums of care releasing data, more than half showed declines — San Joaquin County down nearly a third from 2024, Alameda County down 13%, San Francisco down 4% — while Los Angeles County reported a 1% increase and Sacramento County a 13% increase. Officials credited state-funded shelter beds and housing, while advocates said stepped-up encampment enforcement scatters people and makes them harder to count. A RAND study of Skid Row, Hollywood, and Venice found unsheltered homelessness unchanged from December 2024 to January 2026, with tent-dwelling down 23% and rough sleeping up 20%.
HUD's official 2025 count was 181,934 homeless Californians, a nearly 3% drop from 2024; the official statewide 2026 compilation is months away.
Metro Nashville Office of Homeless Services · 2026-08-21 · on Nashville's certified 2026 point-in-time count results
Nashville's Office of Homeless Services released certified 2026 point-in-time count results identifying 2,298 people experiencing literal homelessness on the night of January 22, 655 of them unsheltered — an increase of 118 people, or 5.4%, from 2025. The office reported Nashville's 2022–2025 increase of 13.8% against a 28% national increase and a 36.1% average among its selected comparison communities.
Nashville police made arrests under Tennessee's felony camping law earlier this month, per August 13 reporting.
Police records provided to Alpha News showed 212 police entries between June 1 and August 21 at addresses around Randolph Avenue and Shepard Road, near the encampment that grew after St. Paul closed the Pig's Eye Park camp on August 5 — 139 of them in the 17 days after the closure, against 73 in the more than two months before it. The outlet reported the records include both calls for service and police-initiated activity, and that much of the increase reflects a heightened police presence, including 50 proactive visits since August 5.
WCCO reported more than 140 people needed new places to live when Pig's Eye Park closed August 5; Ramsey County granted $969,500 to the downtown Catholic Charities shelter for 49 new beds over the next year.
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit via CourtListener · 2026-08-24 · on HUD's reply brief completing First Circuit stay briefing in the CoC NOFO appeal · Update — first covered 2026-08-24
HUD, Secretary Scott Turner, OMB, and Director Russell Vought filed their reply in support of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal on August 24, docketed at 1:28 p.m., ahead of the court's 5:00 p.m. deadline; the filing completed the briefing schedule the First Circuit set on August 17, under which the ten appellees responded August 21. The court, which said it intends to rule promptly, had not ruled as of the docket's last update Monday evening.
The appeal challenges the District of Rhode Island's August 7 judgment vacating HUD's FY2026 Continuum of Care NOFO; the district court denied the same stay request on August 13.
Federal Register · 2026-08-25 · on seven agencies' rescission of 2022 special-purpose credit program guidance
Seven agencies — the FDIC, NCUA, OCC, CFPB, HUD, DOJ, and FHFA — published a notice rescinding the February 2022 Interagency Statement on Special Purpose Credit Programs, effective on its August 25 publication. The 2022 statement had encouraged lenders to use the Equal Credit Opportunity Act's special-purpose credit program provision to meet the credit needs of specified classes of persons; the notice states that all such programs must comply with ECOA, Regulation B, and the Fair Housing Act, and that federal law does not authorize generalized remedial "equity" initiatives absent specific cases of unlawful discrimination.
HUD withdrew its own special-purpose credit program guidance in September 2025, and the CFPB withdrew its December 2020 advisory opinion on the programs as of June 17, 2026.
Continuum of Care grant funding for the Cincinnati region, due July 1, arrived about a month and a half late, and gap-funding contracts Cincinnati and Hamilton County had prepared were not executed. Strategies to End Homelessness president Kevin Finn said organizations covered July and August costs from other sources and the HUD funding will pay for services through the program year ending June 30, 2027; he said HUD has not released information about the next round of CoC funding, whose applications would typically be due in August or September.
The vacated FY2026 NOFO would have capped permanent supportive housing at 30% of CoC spending; the Cincinnati-area continuum spends about 95% of its current funding on permanent supportive housing.
2026-08-27 — Deadline under Judge Edward Chen's order for advocates to propose, and Berkeley to approve or reject, relocation sites for 23 Eighth-and-Harrison camp residents (source)
2026-08-28 — Appearance forms and docketing statement due in NAEH v. HUD, First Circuit No. 26-1923; a ruling on HUD's stay motion could come any day, with briefing completed August 24 (source)
2026-08-31 — House members return; vote expected on the Senate-amended CR funding the government through December 11 (source)
2026-08-31 — Deadline for Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson's bill shielding Midway Rising from environmental lawsuits to clear both chambers with two-thirds majorities (source)
2026-08-31 — Portland's council-ordered social housing study final report expected by the end of August (source)
2026-09-08 — Comments due on HUD's proposed rescission of the 2024 floodplain and Federal Flood Risk Management Standard rules (source)
2026-09-14 — Comments due on HUD's CDBG-DR allocation formula notice (Docket No. FR-6337-N-02) (source)
2026-09-22 — Strauss says he expects Seattle's public safety committee to take up the RV legislation package on or before this date, ahead of a full council vote (source)
2026-09-30 — FY2026 federal funding expires; a CR or final FY27 spending bills needed to avoid a shutdown (source)
2026-10-09 — Comments due on HUD's proposed amendments to the Fair Housing Act disparate-impact standard (source)