President Trump signed H.R. 6500 on September 2, funding the federal government through December 11; NLIHC's analysis of the measure's text said it would extend the availability of some homeless assistance and fair housing grants that would otherwise have expired. Home Forward said it plans to raise the share of monthly income most of its tenants and voucher holders pay toward rent — a tenant now paying 28% of income would pay 31% — affecting about 12,356 households, to help close an estimated $31 million budget gap. In St. Paul, the city said the Randolph Avenue woods now hold at least 140 to 150 people, up from about 40, after roughly 100 residents of the closed Pig's Eye encampment relocated there. One fresh Portland-area story cleared the repeat filter today, so coverage from other regions carries more of this edition.
Only one fresh Portland-area story cleared the seven-day repeat filter today — the rest of the week's local news ran in earlier editions — so coverage from other regions carries more of this edition.
Home Forward said it plans to raise the share of monthly income most of its tenants and voucher holders pay toward rent — a tenant now paying 28% of income would pay 31% — to help close an estimated $31 million budget gap, with the change taking effect no earlier than February 1, 2027. Spokesman Rylee Ahnen said about 12,356 households would be affected, including Housing Choice and project-based voucher holders, and the agency expects the increases to reduce the deficit by $6 million. Tenants will get 90 days' notice, and the increases coincide with the end of a one-year rent-increase moratorium Home Forward imposed on landlords who accept Section 8 vouchers.
In July, Home Forward said its budget shortfall was $31 million — double the figure the agency had described earlier in the year, an error interim director Michael Buonocore attributed to previous leadership.
San Diego opened a $15 million eighth round of its Bridge to Home affordable-housing fund, composed of $10 million in former redevelopment dollars restricted to site work and construction and $5 million from the state Permanent Local Housing Allocation program. Since 2021 the program has committed more than $120 million toward 2,969 units across 30 projects; eight of those projects have finished construction, delivering 676 completed homes. Developer applications are due October 19.
Of the 676 completed homes, 156 units are paired with supportive services for residents experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
During an extreme heat warning with inland temperatures forecast in the triple digits, homeless residents of East Village used the San Diego Central Library and the trolley system as cooling spaces; people without secure storage for belongings or with multiple pets said they could not go inside. Father Joe's Villages said its street team was distributing hats, water and heat-illness education in East Village. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office reported 17 heat-exposure deaths countywide in 2024, almost double the prior year, and the article said it is unclear how many of those people were homeless.
The Neil Good Day Center, a daytime shelter, is scheduled to shutter this fall.
Mayor Karen Bass's Inside Safe program completed its 140th operation Monday, August 31, at a longstanding encampment at Venice Boulevard and Glendon Avenue in Palms; Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky said 19 people moved indoors. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority also provided shelter for people in nearby encampments during extreme heat.
The article reported the program has housed more than 6,000 people citywide.
Advantage Services, a nonprofit that employs about 120 people who have experienced homelessness or other disadvantages for cleanup, shuttle and storage work, said it must raise $750,000 in September or faces possible closure at the end of October. CEO Rob Ferris said its largest contract, with Salt Lake City's Urban Services Division, was cut from roughly $2 million to less than $1 million after the city shifted the work to its in-house Clean City team, and that insurance costs rose from $177,000 to more than $400,000 this year. The city's Public Services Department said the contract reduction was a decision to save taxpayer money.
Advantage Services operates Salt Lake City's Transitional Storage Program, which has more than 500 bins where people experiencing homelessness can store their belongings.
Denver City Council's Community Planning and Housing Committee voted Tuesday, September 1, to advance a one-year continuation of the Department of Housing Stability's housing and homelessness strategy through 2027, sending it to the full council for adoption. The 2027 targets include developing at least 930 housing units, preserving at least 490 income-restricted apartments, sheltering at least 12,000 unique households, and reducing overall homelessness by 30% compared with 2024. Committee members asked HOST for more detailed eviction, funding, racial-equity and family-homelessness data.
HOST's citywide Housing Needs Assessment is expected by December 2026, with the next long-range strategy due September 1, 2027.
Roughly 100 residents of the Pig's Eye Regional Park encampment, closed August 5, relocated to the Randolph Avenue woods, which the city said now hold at least 140 to 150 people, up from about 40. Assistant Mayor Cedrick Baker told the city council that just seven of the 140-plus Pig's Eye residents accepted shelter beds before the closure, and that the site's terrain and rail access limit emergency response. Ramsey County reported 28 individuals with active housing referrals, of whom eight have been housed, and put its total spending on the relocation effort at $1.1 million.
Ahead of the August 5 closure, the St. Paul City Council redirected $1 million to open 49 new dedicated shelter beds at Catholic Charities' Higher Ground facility downtown.
The White House · 2026-09-02 · on the FY2027 continuing resolution signed September 2
President Trump signed H.R. 6500, the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2027, on September 2, providing FY2027 appropriations to federal agencies through December 11. NLIHC's analysis of the measure's text said the bill would extend the availability of some homeless assistance and fair housing grants that would otherwise have expired, and would let public housing authorities repurpose unobligated tenant-based rental assistance to cover costs for households with expiring vouchers.
The House passed the bill 370-48 on September 1 and the Senate 90-6 in early August, ahead of the September 30 funding deadline.
HUD · 2026-09-01 · on rescission of Fair Housing Act design-and-construction claims guidance
HUD rescinded prior guidance on the Fair Housing Act's statute of limitations for design-and-construction claims and issued new guidance applying statutory time limits to such violations, replacing what the department called an Obama-era legal interpretation. HUD said the previous guidance imposed over $110 million in what it described as onerous repair costs on building owners over the last five years. Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Craig Trainor announced the change alongside Secretary Scott Turner.
On August 26, a federal judge in Massachusetts froze HUD's separate planned restructuring of Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants while litigation proceeds.
Cicero Institute · 2026-08-31 · on a Cicero Institute paper on restructuring Continuum of Care funding
The Cicero Institute published a paper by Chris Sharp, Caleb Jacobs, and Ryan Prenosil proposing that HUD's Continuum of Care program shift from paying for services delivered to paying for outcomes such as exits to unsubsidized housing and employment income. The paper said total CoC provider compensation grew from $6.53 billion in 2013 to $14.22 billion in 2024, a 117.8 percent increase, while the population served grew 31 percent. It endorsed the FY2026 NOFO structure that protects 60 percent of Annual Renewal Demand and competes the remaining 40 percent, with a $1.3 billion set-aside for transitional housing and supportive-services-only projects.
The FY2026 CoC NOFO the paper endorses was vacated by the District of Rhode Island on August 7; HUD's appeal and stay motion are pending in the First Circuit (No. 26-1923).
HUD announced federal disaster assistance for Indiana areas affected by severe storms, straight-line winds, tornadoes, and flooding that occurred on August 11, following the presidential major disaster declaration issued August 25. The package includes a 90-day moratorium on foreclosures of FHA-insured mortgages in declared areas, Section 203(h) and 203(k) mortgage insurance options, and administrative flexibility available to CDBG, HOPWA, CoC, ESG, HOME, and HTF grantees.
The presidential major disaster declaration for Indiana was issued August 25, 2026.
2026-09-04 — Appellants' supplemental reply due by 5 p.m. in First Circuit No. 26-1923 (National Alliance to End Homelessness v. HUD); the panel has said it intends to rule promptly on HUD's stay motion (source)
2026-09-08 — Berkeley's Eighth and Harrison encampment scheduled to close; the city and the Berkeley Homeless Union assessed five relocation sites August 26 (source)
2026-09-17 — Seattle Office of Housing 2026 Rental Housing NOFA applications due (at least $100 million available) (source)
2026-09-18 — NW Northrup Shelter in Portland's Pearl District closes permanently, one year after opening (source)
2026-10-01 — FY 2027 Fair Market Rents take effect (source)
2026-10-19 — San Diego Bridge to Home Round 8 developer applications due (source)
2026-12-01 — Advantage Services' insurance renewal payments due, the deadline behind its $750,000 September fundraising campaign (source)
2026-12-11 — Continuing resolution signed September 2 funds the government through this date (source)