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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Ungar and Geoff Mulvihill

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Trumps shift from housing first is causing upheaval for homelessness programs and many they serve - What They Never Told You

US Supportive Housing Upheaval - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Light streamed through stained-glass windows in a former church, illuminating long white tables where weary men gathered. Johnny Henderson was glad for the rest. The 71-year-old — who has one arm, heart disease and vision problems — slept on the street the night before.

Henderson is a regular at the St. John Center men’s day shelter. So are a great-grandfather in a wheelchair who has prostate cancer, a 54-year-old with four psychiatric disorders and a 66-year-old with a walker who wears a hospital bracelet warning “fall risk.”

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