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Since 1994, military veterans, victims of domestic violence, individuals who struggle with mental illness and others with acute needs have been provided with long-term housing through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program known as Continuum of Care. This funding and the desperately needed housing and services it supports are now in grave danger.

The Trump administration proposes to limit these housing resources to 24 months and reduce them by about 15%, while consolidating the program with others — changes that will hurt vulnerable Americans’ access to housing. And while the House and Senate’s proposed budgets would largely reverse what the White House put on the table, a new threat to the program has arisen: It could be completely restructured in the next application cycle in a way that would pull the rug out from under more than 400 local households — and thousands of others like them across our state and the nation — effectively rendering them homeless.

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Here in Albany County, the local Continuum of Care provider — the........

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