President Donald Trump’s administration has backed off from upending federal grants to permanent housing programs — for now. A lawsuit filed by Santa Clara County and 10 other governments and nonprofits against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) last week has pushed the department to revise federal grant guidelines for homeless funding “in order to assess the issues raised by plaintiffs in their suits,” according to a response filed by HUD’s attorneys. The lawsuit alleges HUD’s new point system for rewarding Continuum of Care grants — where projects that align with Trump’s agenda will be ranked higher and others…
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