NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Metro Nashville is suing the federal government, saying new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rules could force hundreds of Nashville families back into homelessness or potentially life-threatening situations.

Mayor Freddie O’Connell accused Pres. Donald Trump and Vice Pres. JD Vance’s administration of gutting programs essential to keeping people housed.

“Unprecedented, cruel and unlawful changes to federal funding by the Trump-Vance administration are ripping up a nationwide network of stable anti-homelessness programs midstream,” O’Connell said Friday. “The administration is destabilizing local systems, breaking commitments communities rely on, and undermining Congress’s plan for how these funds should be used.”

The suit argues the new c

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