Last updated: October 9, 2025

Like the last time the Trump Administration was in office, it has orchestrated various executive orders and actions that attempt to setback and unravel years of progress towards housing and racial justice. These actions conflict with housing justice beliefs and values and cause direct harm to people in our community who are at the sharpest intersection of oppression, especially unhoused neighbors, Black and Indigenous communities, people of color, immigrant neighbors, and LGBTQ+ people.

Funders Together for Housing Justice is committed to providing updates and action opportunities to help philanthropy understand the evolving housing justice policy landscape and how it can be most impactful in stopping harmful policies and supporting community partners. Below is a list programs, resources, and calls-to-action that we will continually update as needed. If you have additional resources to add, please contact Lauren Bennett, Chief of External Affairs.

Please note: While accessible to the public via the URL, this page is not listed on our website out of an abundance of caution to protect partners and co-conspirators in the work. Please share with discernment with your trusted partners.

Funders Together Programming

Monthly Policy Funder Organizing Calls: Navigating Philanthropy’s Role in a Shifting Political Landscape
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Co-Sponsors: Fund for Housing and Opportunity

Funders Together Resources

• Government Shutdown Impacts on Housing Justice Efforts | Continued Attacks on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
• Militarized City Takeovers Continue | Possible Government Shutdown
• White House Targets Unhoused People with Removal through Military Force
• White House Issues Executive Order Focused on Forced Treatment and Incarceration to Address Homelessness
• Funders Together for Housing Justice Condemns the Trump Administration Executive Order Criminalizing Homelessness and Mental Illness
• Ongoing Threats to Housing and Homelessness Programs and Services | Supporting the Existing Re-Imagining Work
• Policy Alert: Trump Administration Issues Executive Order to Displace Homeless Communities in D.C. | Broad National Implications
• Continuing Resolution Passed and FY24 CoC Award Update | Silence Won’t Save Us
• Threats to Federal Resources, HUD Staffing, and Critical Services and Programs | Using Power Now to Protect Our Communities' Futures
• Policy Alert: Trump Administration Plans Executive Order to Displace Homeless Communities
• Federal Administration Attacks on Racial Justice Work Continue | Speaking Up and Speaking Out
• Action Alert: Trump Administration Orders Freeze on Federal Grants
• ICE Raids at Homeless Services and Shelters | Keeping a Future-Focused Mindset
• Webinar Recording: Navigating DEI and Housing Justice Amid Political Attacks
• Funders Together Policy Update archives
• Funders Together and Fund For Housing and Opportunity: A Bold Call to Action

White House Homelessness Executive Order Resources

• National Homelessness Law Center:  
  • 2025 Playbook
  • Housing Not Handcuffs

• InvisiblePeople:
  • Trump's Executive Order Targets Homeless Americans
    
    
• National Alliance to End Homelessness:
  • What the Recent Executive Order Does – and Doesn’t – Do
  • Punitive Policies Will Never Solve Homelessness: The Evidence is Clear
  • CEO Corner: Week of July 28
    
    
• National Homelessness Law Center:
  • National Homelessness Law Center condemns Trump’s misguided Executive Order on homelessness 
  • Housing Not Handcuffs Campaign
    
    
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council:
  • New Executive Order Calls for Arresting and Institutionalizing Unhoused People
    
    
• Urban Institute:
  • New Trump Policies Targeting Homelessness Threaten the Rights of People with Disabilities
    
    
• VOCAL-US:
  • Statement on the Executive Order to expand ticketing and arresting of people unable to afford housing
    
    
• Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
  • D.C. Stands Strong Against Trump Administration’s Escalated Attacks Against Unhoused D.C. Residents
    
    
• NPR
  • The White House is shifting the 'housing first' approach to combating homelessness

Anti-Criminalization Homelessness Resources

• National Homelessness Law Center:  
  • 2025 Playbook
  • Housing Not Handcuffs

Philanthropy Resources

• The Center for Effective Philanthropy
  • Challenging Times: How U.S. Nonprofit Leaders are Experiencing the Political Context
  • Now is When Nonprofits Need Philanthropy the Most: Five Ways Funders Can Step Up
    
    
• Forefront:
  • Information Concerning Executive Orders
    
    
• Funders for Justice:
  • Funder Pledge to Support the Safety & Security of Movement Organizations
  • In Defense of Movements: An Investment Roadmap for Funders Seeing to Defend Justice Movements from Political Prosecutions and Disrupt State-Sponsored Repression

• Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees
  • 100 Day In: A Roadmap for Funding Migrant Justice
    
    
• Greater Washington Community Foundation
  • Stand with DC: Defending Our Community's Right to Self-Governance
    
    
• iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility
  • D.C.’s Federal Takeover Is Not About Safety. It’s AntiBlack Authoritarianism
    
    
• Inside Philanthropy
  • Rising Wave of Funders and PSOs Stand Up for the First Amendment to Give
  • No Shortcuts: How Philanthropy Can Strengthen States in Tumultuous Times
  • Philanthropy and Homelessness: What's Changed, What's the Same, and What's Still Needed
• National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
  • NCRP's Newest Publication Gives Funders Tools to Combat Authoritarianism
    
    
• Nonprofit AF:
  • Thanks, Foundations, but 6% or Even 10% Payout is Not Enough
    
    
• United Philanthropy Forum:
  • • Executive Actions Impacting the Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
    • Advocacy, Awareness, & Action: A Strategic Campaign to Defend and Advance Philanthropy’s Freedom To Invest in Community Well-Being

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Resources

• The Budget Lab
  • Illustrative Distributional Effects of Policies Consistent with the House Concurrent Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year 2025
    
    
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:
  • DOGE-Driven HUD Cuts Will Make It Harder for People to Afford Housing, Exit Homelessness
  • Implementing the Harmful Republican Megabill: a Timeline
    
    
• National Fair Housing Alliance:
  • Federal Government Shutdown Exacerbates HUD’s Dismantling of its Fair Housing Mandate
    
    
• NPR:
  • Advocates warn that cuts to HUD will worsen the housing crisis
    
    
• Policy Link:
  • Understanding the New AFFH Interim Final Rule
    
    
• Urban Institute:
  • HUD Supports Affordable Housing Nationwide. Layoffs and Budget Cuts Will Undermine That Mission.
  • Are Federal Infrastructure Dollars Meeting Your Community's Needs?

Executive Order Resources

• A Way Home America: 
  • Statement on Recent Presidential Executive Orders
    
    
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: 
  • FAQs on Impoundment: Presidential Actions Are Constrained by Long-Standing Constitutional Restrictions
    

• Democracy Forward: 
  • Nonprofits, Public Health Leaders, Small Businesses File Suit to Block OMB Attempt to Halt Essential Services 
    

• Gizmodo
  • The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF
    
    
• Housing Narrative Lab
  • Message Guidance and Suggested Talking Points: Harmful Federal Actions
    
    
• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
  • Trump's Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Explained.

• National Alliance to End Homelessness: 
  • A Letter from Ann Oliva, Alliance CEO, on Recent Executive Orders 
  • Homeless Services Guidance Re: Federal Grant/Loan Pause  
  • The Road Ahead: Anti-DEIA Executive Orders & Ongoing Risks
    
    
• National Council of Nonprofits:  
  • Executive Orders Affecting Charitable Nonprofits  

• National Low Income Housing Coalition: 
  • President Trump Issues Dozens of Executive Orders Impacting Immigrants’ Access to Assistance, Federal Workforce and More 
  • Impacts of Trump Administration Executive Orders 
    

• PolicyMap:
  • Purged Federal Agency Data Available on PolicyMap
    
    
• Protecting Immigrant Families
  • Executive Action Spotlight - Protecting Immigrant Families
    
    
• Representative Rosa DeLauro: 
  • Trump and Republicans’ Unlawful Power Grab Raises Costs for Families, Endangers Public Safety
    
     

Housing and Homelessness Funding Resources

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • States Should Fund Rental Assistance as a Frontline Strategy to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis
    
    
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
  • Snapshot: Most Local & State Governments Spend More on Corrections than Housing
  • More Than 9 Million People Could Be at Risk of Homelessness If Federal Rental Assistance Was Eliminated
• National Health Care for the Homeless Council
  • Homelessness and Medicaid: What’s the Connection?
  • Impact of Medicaid Work Requirements for Unhoused People

Immigration & Housing Justice Policy Resources

• Alliance for Housing Justice:
  • Anti-Immigrant Memorandum Shows HUD Sec. Turner Misunderstands Own Agency’s Programs
    
    
• Housing Not Handcuffs:
  • ICE Raid Resources for Homeless Shelters and Service Providers
    
    
• National Homelessness Law Center:  
  • ICE Raid Guidance for Homeless Service Providers: What to do Before, During, and After a Raid   
  • Resources to Protect Homeless Neighbors Against ICE

• National Low Income Housing Coalition & Protecting Immigrant Families
  • Targeting Immigrants Will Not Solve the Affordable Housing Crisis
    
    
• National Immigration Law Center:  
  • Factsheet: Trump’s Rescission of Protected Areas Policies Undermines Safety for All 
    
    
• Protecting Immigrant Families:
  • Public Charge Resource page
  • HUD/DHS Memo Does Not Change Immigrant Families's Eligibility for Housing Aid

Litigation and Legal Resources

• Center for American Progress
  • DOGE Cuts by City, State, and Congressional Districts
    
    
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  • Many Trump Administration Personnel Actions Are Unlawful

• Democracy Docket
  
  
• Just Security:  
  • Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
    
    
• MeidasTouch 
  • Why We’re Suing Donald Trump
    
    
• Public Citizen:  
  • Advocacy Group, Unions Sue Treasury Department Over Illegal DOGE Data Access
  • Public Citizen, SDDF, and AFGE Sue Trump Administration Over DOGE
    
    
• The LGBTQ+ Bar
  • Trump Anti-LGBTQ+ Executive Order Litigation Tracker

LGBTQ+ & Housing Justice Resources

• SAGE:
  • When Shelter Becomes a Struggle: The Human Cost of Equal Access Rule Rollback
    
    
• National Alliance to End Homelessness
  • How the Equal Access Rule Can Protect Trans People and Sex Workers