Chicago-area housing advocates are bracing for many of the 8,500 formerly unhoused people whose residences are subsidized by the federal government to lose their homes after the Trump administration announced it was drastically changing its funding rules and slashing the money available to subsidize long-term housing solutions.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development late Thursday published new rules which shifts its priorities away from housing-first policies which, advocates say, have been a bipartisan standard for over a decade.

More than 100 groups statewide rely on HUD funding to run affordable apartment buildings or pay rent subsidies to private landlords for people most at-risk of becoming homeless — mainly those who live with long-term disabilities or severe mental illnes

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