Street Sense published emails showing a White House Homelessness Working Group formed in May 2025 to direct encampment clearings in Washington, D.C., where the National Park Service said it has cleared 169 encampments on federal land and the District's monthly clearing average has risen to about 17 this year from eight to nine in 2024–2025. Plaintiffs in NAEH v. HUD asked the district court September 4 to recast its FY2026 Continuum of Care NOFO judgment so their claims over OMB's $4 billion apportionment can proceed; responses are due September 18. In Oakland, tows and sweeps of inhabited vehicles are increasing under a policy that took effect in July — about 2,120 of the nearly 3,660 people counted on the city's streets in 2024 lived in vehicles. HUD posted, then withdrew, a reorganization notice that put its staffing at around 5,800 employees, down from about 8,800 in fiscal 2024. The edition runs 10 items; candidates in every section were repeats of stories from earlier this week, and a San Antonio item was cut when its source page could not be verified.
Portland State University's Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative and the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health released the final installment of a study of how people navigate homelessness and homeless services in Multnomah County, combining 541 surveys with 29 journey-mapping interviews co-designed with a committee of people with lived experience. The survey phase found 98% of unhoused participants want permanent housing, and more than 30% of interview participants said the death of a loved one directly or indirectly contributed to their housing loss. The report lists six action priorities, including expanding affordable housing diversity and preventing homelessness before it occurs.
The study's first installment, based on the 541 surveys, was released in April 2026.
The Mercury published candidate profiles for City Council District 4, where twelve candidates are running for three seats; incumbents Olivia Clark, Mitch Green, and Eric Zimmerman are seeking reelection. Housing positions diverge across the field: Green campaigns on the city's social housing investment in permanently affordable city-owned properties, Zimmerman called for ending unsanctioned camping as quickly as possible, and challenger Josh Leake proposes converting the ICE facility into a "medically driven" sobering center.
The Mercury published its District 3 candidate guide on September 9.
Home Forward opened applications September 9 for project-based waitlists at five subsidized affordable properties: Meadowlark Place, Dahlke Manor, Hollywood East, Medallion Apartments, and Gresham Civic Station. The application window runs through 11:59 p.m. September 21, and eligible households must earn less than 50% of area median income. The release did not specify how many units or waitlist slots will be filled.
Home Forward is planning around an estimated $31 million budget shortfall, per Willamette Week's September 2 reporting.
Oakland is increasing tows and sweeps of inhabited vehicles under an Encampment Abatement Policy that took effect in July, after an April city council vote removed inhabited vehicles from the city's definition of a homeless encampment. City workers began towing vehicles or requiring owners to relocate along San Leandro Street in late August, and Oakland police said they towed more than 60 abandoned and stolen cars and RVs in nearby neighborhoods on a single night. About 2,120 of the nearly 3,660 homeless people counted on the city's streets in 2024 — 58% — lived in vehicles, and the city has 1,260 shelter units for 4,410 homeless residents.
Oakland's point-in-time homelessness declined about 20% from 2024 to 2026, per the same report.
At a September 9 news conference with City Controller Kenneth Mejia, Councilmember Nithya Raman said Mayor Karen Bass had failed to oversee hundreds of millions in homelessness spending and pledged that, if elected, the city would manage its homelessness funding by the end of her first year, with Mejia given greater audit access. Bass's campaign said her departure from the LAHSA Commission does not change who oversees the funding. Raman said unsheltered homelessness fell 49% in her district in the most recent count; the 2026 count estimated 45,194 people homeless citywide, up 3.4%, with unsheltered homelessness up 7.9% to 29,115.
A federal judge in August issued a preliminary injunction halting the Trump administration's June suspension of LAHSA's HUD funding while LAHSA's lawsuit proceeds.
Pallet, the Washington-based shelter manufacturer chosen for Dallas's planned South Dallas transitional housing community, announced it is closing its business after nine years. Dallas's plan calls for a 75-unit non-congregate community on 3.6 acres, at a price of $2.7 million paid from 2024 bond funds and with estimated annual operating costs of $1.5 million to $2 million; the city's published timeline places the Pallet unit order in December 2026 and installation by September 2027. Neither Pallet nor Dallas's Office of Housing and Community Empowerment had responded to requests for comment at publication.
Pallet said it created more than 6,000 beds and sheltered an estimated 30,000 people across the US and Canada since 2017.
U.S. District Court, D.R.I., via CourtListener · 2026-09-04 · on plaintiffs' unopposed motion to correct the FY2026 CoC NOFO judgment
Plaintiffs in NAEH v. HUD filed an unopposed motion September 4 asking the district court to recast its August 7 judgment setting aside HUD's FY2026 Continuum of Care NOFO as a Rule 54(b) partial judgment, and then to resolve their still-pending claims against OMB, which challenge two footnotes OMB attached when it apportioned approximately $4 billion in FY2026 CoC funds on May 22. Because HUD's appeal is pending, plaintiffs seek an indicative ruling first; responses are due September 18.
In the First Circuit appeal (26-1923), HUD's emergency stay motion remained pending as of the appellate docket's September 9 update, after the panel ordered supplemental briefing that concluded September 2.
HUD posted a preview of its "notice of intent to reorganize" to the Federal Register's public-inspection repository on September 4, then its Office of General Counsel requested the document's withdrawal later the same day without stating a reason. The draft described consolidating OCIO contract and financial-management functions, public housing functions, FHA single-family field structure, and OGC headquarters and regional offices. The notice said HUD is staffed at around 5,800 employees versus about 8,800 in fiscal 2024; HUD did not respond to questions about whether it will pursue the plans.
Street Sense published emails obtained by public-records request showing a White House "Homelessness Working Group" — including the National Security Council, HUD, HHS, the National Park Service, and D.C. agencies — formed in May 2025 under the Safe and Beautiful Task Force executive order, and that police officers under federal control compiled a 25-site encampment list near the White House on August 14, 2025, at least 14 of which were cleared the next day. The National Park Service said August 28 that it has cleared 169 encampments on federal land since the task force was announced, and D.C.'s monthly clearing average has risen to about 17 this year from eight to nine in 2024–2025.
The White House said on August 19, 2025 that 48 encampments had been cleared during the takeover, a figure the article says Street Sense has not been able to independently confirm.
Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week of September 10 put the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 6.76%, up from 6.71% the prior week; a year ago it averaged 6.35%. The 15-year fixed rate averaged 6.09%, up from 6.04%.
The prior week's survey (September 4) averaged 6.71% for the 30-year rate.
2026-09-21 — Home Forward project-based waitlist applications close at 11:59 p.m. for five subsidized affordable properties (source)
2026-10-13 — Comments due on HUD's Notice of Research Justifying Additional Incentives for Certain Activities To Reduce Homelessness (FR-6628-N-01) (source)