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Cambridge joins multijurisdictional lawsuits after HUD withdraws 2025 Continuum-of-Care guidance
Summary
City Manager told the council on Dec. 8 that HUD’s revised 2025 Continuum of Care guidelines sharply reduced year-to-year carryover (from 90% to 30%), prompting Cambridge to join lawsuits; the judge accepted expedited briefing and HUD withdrew the guidance pending reissue.
Cambridge’s city manager told the City Council on Dec. 8 that sudden program changes announced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development risked destabilizing permanent supportive housing programs funded through the Continuum of Care (CoC) grants.
According to the city manager’s briefing, HUD’s mid-November guidance would have reduced the amount of CoC funding that grantees could carry from one fiscal year to the next from roughly 90% to 30%, reassigning roughly 70% of prior carryover to newly defined programs and eligibility rules. City staff and legal counsel said that change could force significant contract and service disruptions for nonprofit partners…
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