Judge pauses HUD rule that put 1,600 beds for homeless in Northeastern Minnesota at risk

Judge pauses HUD rule that put 1,600 beds for homeless in Northeastern Minnesota at risk

DULUTH — A federal judge paused a Trump administration plan that would have redirected funding from permanent or long-term housing to transitional housing and affected some 1,600 beds in Northeastern Minnesota. In a preliminary injunction issued Dec. 23 in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, Judge Mary McElroy ordered the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to use its 2024 method of distributing grants to regional Continuums of Car…