Tennessee’s recent felony charges against Joseph Williams in Nashville for camping on public property mirror national efforts to prosecute homelessness as a serious crime rather than addressing it as a failure of public housing policy. Since the 2024 Supreme Court decision allowed these laws—and the Trump Administration issued an Executive Order in 2025 encouraging increasingly […]

On April 10, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule to establish electronic standards for prescription drug prior authorizations and require timely responses from insurers.  Implementation is set for October 2027.  Prior authorization requires health care providers to obtain approval from a patient’s insurance provider before prescribing medications or providing a medical service. A 2024 final rule established standards for medical procedures but did not include prescription drugs. The new proposed rule fixes this gap by setting a 24-hour deadline for Medicaid insurers to […]

On Friday, President Trump released his Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget request, once again proposing deep cuts to health care and housing programs while increasing defense spending by historic levels. The proposal eliminates key programs and consolidates others within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development […]

NHCHC Partners with L.A. County Health Providers to Launch the “ADL Assistance in Recuperative Care” Pilot

NHCHC Partners with L.A. County Health Providers to Launch the “ADL Assistance in Recuperative Care” Pilot

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council strongly opposes the new funding restrictions outlined in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Fiscal Year 2025 Continuum of Care Notice of Funding Opportunity (CoC NOFO) released late last week because the proposed changes will increase homelessness.  Most significantly, these restrictions will end funding […]

by Barbara DiPietro, Senior Director of Policy Last month, the federal government took one of its most aggressive steps in decades to criminalize mental illness, substance use disorder, and homelessness. On July 24, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” directly calling on states to arrest […]

Yesterday, President Trump issued an Executive Order that threatens the safety and civil rights of millions of people with mental health or substance use disorders and directly calls on states to arrest and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness. We agree that homelessness should not exist in the United States and we assert that everyone has a […]

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rescinded decades old policy that allowed health centers — and many other health care and education programs — to serve individuals regardless of immigration status. This new guidance asserts that health center services are now considered “federal public benefits,” and many non-citizens will no longer be eligible […]

New Law Reverses 10 Years of Progress, Putting Lives and Communities at Risk Today, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a measure that will strip Medicaid coverage from more than 12 million people, put thousands of lives at risk each year, and threaten the stability of health clinics and hospitals across the country. […]