Advocacy Toolkits

Every year, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides billions of dollars across the nation to state and local governments. These funds support a range of services dedicated to ending homelessness and empowering state and local community-based organizations to create change in their communities.

In 2025, after an executive order from President Trump stating the administration’s new approach towards homelessness, HUD released funding guidelines that will dramatically disrupt programs that have brought people indoors, putting people who are currently housed back on the street and treating unhoused people as dangerous criminals instead of vulnerable humans with complex challenges.

Lane worked with the Middlesex County Continuum of Care to develop the attached toolkit to help explain the harmful impacts of the new HUD guidelines for funding. These include a dramatic shift away from housing first, extra points for collaborating with law enforcement and immigration, and penalties for addressing racial disparities or providing services in ways that align with individuals' identities.

Adaptations

This toolkit is specifically tailored to Middlesex County, as showcasing local impacts of federal policies is most effective in spurring people to action.

The education on federal priorities will remain the same, but the toolkit can now be adapted to showcase impacts on other local communities.

To start a conversation with Lane about a potential adaptation, send him an email.