The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily paused U.S. District Judge David O. Carter's order requiring more than 2,500 housing units on the 400-acre West Los Angeles VA campus while the federal government decides whether to petition the U.S. Supreme Court. The panel gave VA officials until Dec. 10 to decide and said that if they do not appeal by then "the stay will be lifted immediately." Plaintiffs' attorney Mark Rosenbaum said the government has "lost every time they have taken this to court."
A Ninth Circuit panel denied the government's request to halt construction in September 2026; Carter's underlying order dates to 2024 in a case filed by unhoused veterans in 2023.
Nardello & Co., the court-appointed monitor of the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights settlement, filed its first report in federal court on Wednesday, summarizing site visits to dozens of shelters and permanent housing projects. One 225-unit building had 83 vacancies with move-ins paused for remediation after a guest tried to steal copper wire from the water system, and a county master-leased project had 102 occupants in 169 beds, which its manager attributed to water damage, elevator outages and copper theft. The report said agencies rely on "numerous databases, self-reported information, manual data transfers, and decentralized reporting practices," and that staff at more than half the sites visited declined to answer questions or allow access.
Judge Carter named Nardello & Co. in May 2026 to monitor the 2022 settlement, which requires the city to create thousands of shelter and housing beds; he denied a receivership motion in 2025.
HomeRise's board agreed Thursday to what a spokesperson called "an orderly resident-centered wind-down" over one to two years, requiring the city to transition operations and supportive services at 17 complexes housing more than 1,500 residents to new providers. The Chronicle reported the nonprofit received $240 million in public funds over a recent four-year period and that the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing announced in late July it would not renew four of nine supportive-services contracts. The Chronicle described the shutdown as without precedent for a provider of its size in the city.
The city placed HomeRise on its most severe level of nonprofit monitoring in March 2026 after a resident's death at Jazzie Collins Apartments.
Idaho Statesman · on New Path II, a 95-unit permanent supportive housing building
New Path II, the city-sponsored expansion of Boise's New Path permanent supportive housing development west of downtown, opened this week with 95 units for people exiting homelessness, joining the original 40-unit building. The project was financed with two types of federal low-income housing tax credits plus $5.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act money routed through the city. The Statesman reported that New Path I produced about $11.1 million in savings and cost avoidance over its first six years, and that the U.S. Treasury in 2024 promised Boise up to $6.6 million if it can show the housing-first approach reduces health and judicial costs.
Boise's most recent point-in-time count found 772 people experiencing homelessness in January 2025, of whom 126 were unsheltered.
Cascadia Health and Central City Concern told WW that property insurers have pulled back from covering their supportive housing after fires, floods and unit damage, leaving the nonprofits largely self-insuring. Cascadia said its property deductible rose from $10,000 to $100,000 in 2023 before falling to $25,000 as of August 2026; CCC said its per-incident deductible went from $10,000 in 2020 to $100,000 as of July 2026, with premiums also rising. Cascadia CEO James Schroeder told Councilor Steve Novick at a September 9 council work session that the city needs more “step-up” and “step-down” settings between hospital and permanent housing.
Health Share of Oregon estimates the high-acuity behavioral health group is about 9% of the local Medicaid population and accounts for 29% of Medicaid costs and 39% of inpatient admissions.
Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs announced a $50 million gift to Father Joe’s Villages, the largest in the organization’s history, toward a three-building, 18-story complex at Imperial Avenue and 15th Street expected to cost about $350 million and break ground in 2028. Developer Arete Development said the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Family Campus would have more than 500 affordable units, including 150 for older adults and 77 for transitional housing. The project has a little more than 14% of its funding secured; Mayor Todd Gloria said the city would consider a request for funds and Supervisor Paloma Aguirre said it was too early to say whether she would seek county money.
The project requires demolishing the Joan Kroc Center; KPBS reported its residents would be moved to Father Joe’s Fifth Avenue and Ash Street facility in early 2028, with a targeted completion in 2032.
The Vancouver City Council on September 14 approved spending $9.5 million from the city's Affordable Housing Fund on seven projects totaling about 400 units for seniors, families, people with disabilities and people exiting homelessness, according to a staff report. Awards include $3 million to preserve Smith Tower, $3 million to a 51-unit Vancouver Housing Authority senior project, and $1.5 million to Community Roots for a 24-unit permanent supportive housing development on East Mill Plain Boulevard. City officials also moved $2 million from rental assistance into production and preservation, saying rental assistance funds had been spent more slowly than anticipated.
Only one Vancouver project has received money from the state Housing Trust Fund in the past two years, which The Columbian reports has stalled about 560 planned affordable units.
Urban Milwaukee · on the Phoenix Residential Apartments opening in Milwaukee
KG Development Group opened Phoenix Residential Apartments, a 31-unit affordable housing development in a redeveloped former Jewish Home in Milwaukee's Uptown neighborhood, with a ribbon-cutting Monday. Milwaukee County provided approximately $1.3 million toward the approximately $9 million redevelopment; the county Housing Division will lease 10 crisis-stabilization units and attach housing vouchers to eight of the units. Developer Anthony Kazee said the project required 13 different sources of financing, with Bader Philanthropies providing the final gap funding.
Milwaukee County has funded affordable housing developments in nine suburbs under County Executive David Crowley's administration.
Father Joe's Villages opened single-occupancy units at its downtown San Diego campus for people leaving homelessness, renting at $842 per month with shared bathrooms, kitchen and lounge. President and CEO Jim Vargas said tenants are coming from shelters and from street homelessness and will have access to the organization's meals, health clinic and job center. Move-ins began the week of September 21 and will continue through early November.
UC San Diego researchers counted 110 single-occupancy hotels downtown in 2002 and 35 by 2023.
Union Tower, a 94-unit affordable housing complex built by Wakeland Housing in National City that opened in May 2026, has placed 24 veterans who were experiencing homelessness into housing. The complex replaced 32 older units on the site and serves households earning between 30 and 60 percent of the area median income.
An internal Los Angeles housing department memo said SRO Housing Corp., which operates 2,500 units of affordable housing in nearly three dozen Skid Row buildings, needed "immediate assistance," was facing "severe financial distress," anticipated roughly six months of solvency, and would shut down without help. CEO Anita Nelson told Politico she never told the city the organization expected to close in six months and said it is not currently planning to do so.
Another major Skid Row supportive-housing landlord, the Skid Row Housing Trust, collapsed in 2023.
KWB Apartments, a permanent supportive housing complex at 44 N. 1000 West developed in partnership by First Step House and Housing Connect, opened with 67 apartments for people exiting long-term homelessness. The $26 million project, funded through public and private sources, pairs the units with on-site case management, mental health care and recovery support; a project official said retention data for this housing model with supportive services runs 90 to 95 percent.
A 127-unit affordable building on DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick opened with 45 units reserved for families who were formerly homeless, young families and young women who are pregnant. The building, a collaboration between Camber Property Group and RiseBoro Community Partnership, provides free social services to its supportive-housing tenants and ranges from studios to three-bedroom units.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced $1.17 billion in FY2027 grants to 680 organizations serving veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, which the agency called a record high. $855 million goes to one-year Supportive Services for Veteran Families grants and $318 million to three-year Grant and Per Diem transitional-housing grants, both beginning October 1, 2026. VA said the awards follow its housing of 51,936 homeless veterans in fiscal year 2025, which it called the most in seven years.
VA's comparable award announced August 27, 2025 was more than $818 million, to 235 organizations.
The 9th Circuit on Friday denied the Department of Veterans Affairs' petition for rehearing, with more than two-thirds of the court's 29 judges ruling against the VA, leaving in place U.S. District Judge David Carter's September 2024 order requiring 2,550 housing units — 750 temporary and 1,800 permanent — on the 400-acre West LA VA campus. The court said no further rehearing petitions will be entertained. The VA declined to comment.
The 2024 order sets deadlines of 750 temporary units within 18 months and 1,800 permanent units within six years.
City filings show the 61-unit Hudson House at 1712 Summit Ave, a 1906-era building operating as studio micro-apartments, will be used as supportive shelter under a partnership with Purpose. Dignity. Action., which runs the CoLEAD program. The Easton Group acquired the building from Pioneer Human Services for $4.5 million in 2024, with rents around $799 a month plus utilities. PDA said its lodging agreements set occupancy terms without requiring sobriety or criminal background checks.
The Seattle Office of Housing committed $27 million to permanent supportive housing workforce wages at partners and contractors in its latest budget.
City of Boston · on a 126-unit downtown Boston tower with 70 units for people exiting homelessness
Mayor Michelle Wu, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, and Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Hennessey joined St. Francis House and the Planning Office for Urban Affairs to open 41 LaGrange Street, a 19-story, all-electric Passive House tower in downtown Boston with 126 income-restricted rental homes. Of the 126 apartments, 70 are dedicated to individuals exiting homelessness, who will receive wraparound services through St. Francis House, and 56 serve workforce, middle-, and low-income households. The building was constructed on a former surface parking lot.
The city said Boston has created 668 permanent supportive housing units since Mayor Wu took office.
Cascadia Health opened Mountain View, a 10-bed secure residential treatment facility for adults with serious mental illness in Southeast Portland, in collaboration with Multnomah County and the Oregon Health Authority, with an opening event held September 3. OHA dedicated $5 million from House Bill 5024 (2021) to the project as part of an investment in creating 172 new secure residential treatment facility beds across Oregon. OHA said referrals will come primarily from hospital partners, including Oregon State Hospital, to reduce wait times for patients ready for discharge.
OHA said 1,067 of 1,660 new licensed residential treatment beds statewide are already open, with 593 more scheduled to open within the next two and a half years.
Rooted Communities announced its proposal to convert the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, HUD's former headquarters in Southwest D.C., into about 1,000 housing units along with space for homeless and community services will not move forward. The group said it had raised $500 million and brought together 20 of D.C.'s top nonprofits. D.C. officials opposed concentrating homeless housing at a single site, with Deputy Mayor Nina Albert citing the D.C. General shelter as a concentration that "didn't work."
The General Services Administration removed the Weaver Building from its federal property sales list in late July.
City Bureau reported that Chicago stands to lose almost $67 million in federal Continuum of Care funding and 5,892 of its more than 9,000 permanent supportive housing beds if proposed federal cuts are enacted, and that Illinois as a whole would lose $106 million and 9,362 of 21,400 beds. The Trump administration tried in November to impose a 30% cap on Continuum of Care money used for permanent housing programs. Federal COVID-19 relief money that supports local services must be spent by the end of 2026, with no plans to replace it, the outlet reported.
The FY2026 CoC funding notice carrying HUD's new conditions was vacated by a federal court on August 7; HUD has appealed and moved for a stay pending appeal.
Twelve current and former tenants of Blue Butterfly Village, a 74-townhome complex for formerly homeless female veterans in San Pedro, filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against nonprofit landlord Volunteers of America, alleging neglected maintenance, uninhabitable conditions and harassment of residents who complained. The complex was redeveloped with about $12 million in state and local funding, loans, waived fees and donated land. LAist reported through a public records request that the city Housing Authority has placed at least three units there under abatement in recent years.
LAHSA's 2026 count found about 2,250 veterans experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County on a given night, down about 42% from 2020.
Mobile Loaves and Fishes, the nonprofit running Community First Village, filed 77 evictions last year, its highest annual total, up from six cases in 2021; 44 of those residents were ultimately removed. The nonprofit has filed 51 evictions so far this year. The village houses 455 formerly homeless residents and plans to grow to as many as 1,900 units across 178 acres.
The eviction filing rate at the site is more than three times that of Travis County as a whole, according to Eviction Lab data cited by KUT.
Integral Care, Travis County's mental health authority, opened Seabrook Square II, a permanent supportive housing community for 60 people who have experienced chronic homelessness. Fourteen residents moved in the week of August 17, with additional residents arriving in waves of about 15. Rent is capped at 30% of income, or $0 for residents with none, under a standard Texas lease.
Travis County officials counted 3,238 people experiencing homelessness this year, a 36% increase from 2023.
Kristine Eno sued Central City Concern and Multnomah County for $3 million, alleging the provider failed to conduct wellness checks on her brother Eric Eno at the Shoreline transitional/parole residential complex and that his body went undiscovered for approximately 11 days. The suit is one of seven similar legal claims over bodies that went undiscovered in the nonprofit's transitional units, and it alleges 34 undetected deaths across the 2,400 public housing units Central City Concern runs in the county.
A prior wrongful-death case involved Brendan Mackey, who died at the same Shoreline facility in February 2024.
The San Antonio Housing Trust approved a 28-month Homeless Response Action Plan for Cattleman Square, a historic district west of downtown where more than 160 people experiencing homelessness are sleeping near abandoned buildings. Nearly 40 nonprofits and other organizations are participating; the first six months focus on outreach and needs identification, and the plan's first two years could cost more than $12 million.
A draft master plan is expected in October, with the final version potentially available by January.
Sacramento halted its planned micro-community for homeless seniors at 3511 Arena Boulevard in North Natomas, a city-run temporary housing project of up to 40 units for people 55 and older, Councilmember Lisa Kaplan confirmed. The project was last estimated to cost $7.1 million; Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes said the 1.58-acre site sits in an A99 flood zone requiring additional engineering, drainage and compliance work.
The Arena Boulevard site was one of four micro-communities proposed in Sacramento; a group called the Advisory Council for Legal Ethical Oversight filed a lawsuit in April seeking to halt the project.