The Department of Housing and Urban Development quietly released its annual homelessness report on Friday afternoon, 16 months after volunteers around the country carried out the 2025 homeless count. The news wasn’t all bad, in fact the data showed a small improvement overall. But these marginal gains elicited an odd response from the Trump administration, which opted to use the report as a vehicle to attack programs and policies that help both poor and unhoused Americans. Overall, homelessness