Trump’s shift from 'Housing First' is causing upheaval for homelessness programs and many they serve
John Franklin poses for a portrait outside his permanent supportive apartment in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Light streamed through stained-glass windows in a former church, illuminating long white tables where weary men gathered. Johnny Henderson was glad for the rest. The 71-year-old — who has one arm, heart disease and vision problems — slept on the street the night before.
Henderson is a regular at the St. John Center men’s day shelter. So are a great-grandfather in a wheelchair who has prostate cancer, a 54-year-old with four psychiatric disorders and a 66-year-old with a walker who wears a hospital bracelet warning “fall risk.”
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