Daily Archives: April 1, 2025

Idaho extends foster care benefits to age 23, aims to reduce homelessness

…”Any additional year in extended foster care provides evidence for less homelessness, less food insecurity, more money in a bank account, higher percentages of educational growth,” said a department representative. READ MORE

Trump turns homelessness response away from housing, toward forced treatment

President Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the most effective way to combat the crisis.…