Santa Clara County and San Francisco, together with seven different native governments, are asking a federal choose to dam the U.S. Division of Housing and City Improvement from putting “unlawful” situations on federal funds — stipulations that would put tens of millions of {dollars} to handle homelessness in danger.
The lawsuit, which is being led by King County, Washington, was filed on Friday within the U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Washington. It challenges the Trump administration’s orders to finish federal grants that promote range, fairness and inclusion, “gender ideology” and abortion or “abet so-called ‘sanctuary’ policies that seek to shield illegal aliens from deportation.” On Monday, the coalition filed a brief restraining order within the matter, which is predicted to be heard by a choose on Could 7.
The lawsuit focuses on funds from the Continuum of Care program — grants for homelessness providers which might be administered by HUD and appropriated by Congress. Santa Clara County depends on $34 million per yr and San Francisco depends on $50 million yearly in Continuum of Care funds that assist everlasting supportive housing, speedy rehousing efforts and transitional housing applications.
The coalition argues within the lawsuit that the situations positioned on the funds “appear to require federal grant recipients to agree to promote the political agenda President Trump campaigned on during his run for office and has continued espousing since, including opposition to all forms of DEI policies and initiatives, participation in aggressive and lawless immigration enforcement, exclusion of transgender people and cutting off access to lawful abortions.”
HUD officers couldn’t instantly be reached for touch upon the lawsuit, however in a March social media put up, HUD Secretary Scott Turner mentioned that the Continuum of Care program was “meant to provide funds to end homelessness, unfortunately it was used as a tool by the left to push a woke agenda at the expense of people in need.”
In an announcement, San Francisco Metropolis Lawyer David Chiu mentioned that the “new grant conditions blatantly violate the Constitution and endanger people’s lives. This is part of Trump’s strategy to push his ideology by threatening local programs and budgets.”
The lawsuit over HUD funds is a part of a slew of lawsuits filed by Santa Clara County and San Francisco in opposition to the Trump administration. Final week, the 2 Bay Space governments sued Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity over makes an attempt to scale back the scale of the federal workforce and restrict hiring.
Lawsuits have additionally been filed over President Donald Trump’s government orders to finish birthright citizenship and withhold federal funds from jurisdictions which have declared themselves as “sanctuaries” for immigrants residing within the nation illegally.
Initially Printed: Could 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM PDT
