Mayors across the country are trying to confront the housing crisis with fewer guarantees of federal funding from Washington and mounting pressure to fill the gaps themselves.
Some of the programs they are pushing have been in the works for years, but they have taken on new urgency under the second Trump administration as the president seeks to shrink federal housing assistance going to cities.
“If the federal government is not going to do that, then cities and states have to step up and figure out ways to work together and try to address as much of it as we can, as quickly as we can, as aggressively as we can,” Arunan Arulampalam, the mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, told NOTUS.