News & Commentary

Jun 30, 2026

Court Vacates Unlawful Funding Criteria for Solutions to Homelessness in Case Brought by Broad Coalition

Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful Criteria Would Have Pushed an Estimated 170,000 Americans into Homelessness

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Jun 22, 2026

Coalition Challenges Latest Efforts to Politicize Homelessness Funding Grants

New Filing Highlights Repeated Mistakes and Unlawful Criteria in Latest Homelessness Funding Announcement

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Apr 01, 2026

Appeals Court Rejects Latest Trump-Vance Administration Attack on Funding for Solutions to Homelessness

Count Continues to Block Unlawful Grant Restrictions that Would Push Nearly 200,000 Americans into Homelessness

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Apr 01, 2026

Court Finds Trump-Vance Administration Violated Law in Rush to Politicize Housing Grants

National Alliance to End Homelessness and Women’s Development Corporation Secure Victory in Key Executive Overreach Lawsuit

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Dec 01, 2025

Local Governments and Nonprofit Groups Challenge Unlawful New Trump-Vance Administration Restrictions That Threaten Proven Solutions to Homelessness

Suit Raises Concerns that Trump-Vance Administration Actions Will Push More Than 170,000 People Into Homelessness as Cold Winter Months Arrive

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Sep 12, 2025

Court Blocks Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful Housing Grant Restrictions

Rhode Island judge grants temporary restraining order in federal housing funding case.

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Sep 11, 2025

New Lawsuit Challenges Trump-Vance Administration’s Targeted Punishment of Applicants for Federal Housing Funding

The National Alliance to End Homelessness and Women's Development Corporation, a Rhode Island organization that develops affordable housing, file suit in Rhode Island

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Aug 21, 2024

ACLU of RI's Statement on Cranston Mayor's Executive Order to Remove Encampments

ACLU of RI's statement on an executive order just issued by the Cranston’s Mayor that unilaterally giving the police department broad power to remove encampments.

ACLU of RI's Statement on Cranston Mayor's Executive Order
Feb 06, 2024

Interim Agreement Filed in Lawsuit Challenging Landlord’s Retaliatory Conduct Against Tenants Seeking to Organize

Attorneys for the R.I. Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union of RI today announced an interim settlement in a lawsuit filed last month challenging the threatened evictions of tenants for associating with Reclaim RI.

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