The Trump Administration is aiming to transform how homeless services are funded by slashing budgets, distributing money to states instead of local agencies, and ending a program that houses previously unsheltered people with disabilities.

Orlando-based providers of those services fear such a wholesale change would be a major setback, not only by making fewer dollars available for initiatives with a proven track record, but also by bringing more state government influence into how the money is spent.

“This is worst-case scenario stuff for homeless services,” said Eric Gray, the CEO of the Christian Service Center in downtown Orlando.

The proposal was detailed in the Trump administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 budget request released May 30. Such White House budget plans act mostly as indica

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