(The Center Square) - Washington state officials were already removing Housing First grant criteria weeks before the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released new rules that deprioritize the model after defining the federal homelessness response for years, records obtained by The Center Square show.
HUD issued a $4 billion opportunity on June 1 that shifted federal funding guidelines for homelessness services from focusing on the Housing First model to treatment, recovery and achieving self-sufficiency.
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