Jake Day says that decades of progress will be reversed by “destructive federal decisions to drag Maryland backwards.”
Maryland Secretary of Housing and Community Development Jake Day is not holding back when it comes to the estimated impact of the $46 million in cuts to be made to the state’s federal funding allocation for homelessness.
“The Trump Administration’s announcement of cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care program is a direct, devastating assault on our nation’s most vulnerable people: our unhoused neighbors,” the Maryland Daily Record reported Day saying in a statement.
Day warned that homelessness across the state will increase by 25 percent, including 4,300 adults and 1,900 children losing their homes. This would represent a catastrophic hit to the state’s recent progress, which has reduced unsheltered homelessness by 42% and overall homelessness by 28% since 2015.
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