Trump’s Medicaid cuts could hamper efforts to house the homeless

BALTIMORE — In pushing deep Medicaid cuts through Congress this year, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies did not just squeeze a program that pays doctors and hospitals to provide poor people health care.

Over the last decade, states have increasingly used Medicaid dollars for another critical effort: helping the homeless and other vulnerable groups find stable housing.

To glimpse that little-known work, consider the journey of Michelle Cates, a food safety trainer who lost her job and apartment after a brain disease triggered seizures and intensified her struggles with anxiety and depression.

After two years in a Baltimore shelter, Cates received a federal rent subsidy. But finding an apartment was a challenge for a woman prone to blackouts and panic attacks.

A caseworker