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Attorney General Nick Brown led a multistate lawsuit Tuesday challenging new homelessness funding restrictions by the Trump administration that could put 170,000 formerly homeless people nationally at risk of returning to the streets.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Rhode Island, seeks to block a policy shift announced by the administration this month that would steer federal homelessness dollars away from long-term, low-barrier housing and toward shorter-term shelters that impose sobriety and work requirements.

The changes would upend decades of stable “Housing First” funding supported by pa

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