Politics-What's on your mind?

easygoingfemme · 01-28-2025, 12:27 PM

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

Kätzchen · 01-28-2025, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

Thanks for keeping us posted about deeply concerning news affecting non-profits, housing and DV agencies. Hopefully this merits a speedy lawsuit with speedy repercussions for those who upend lives of those who have no where else to go.

GeorgiaMa'am · 01-28-2025, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by easygoingfemme

As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

Scary. Very scary.

If I had to make a guess, I'd guess "shortly" is 90 days, since that's the amount of time T***p's resolutions delayed a lot of other programs while he supposedly figures out if they're in line with his overall plans. Who does that? Nobody can just go into a new job and say "I'm halting all operations for 90 days while I decide what to do and get up to speed on everything."

I'm really angry on your behalf, and on the behalf of all your clients.

easygoingfemme · 01-28-2025, 04:39 PM

Tonight a temporary ban on the freeze was put in for "some programming". I don't know what programs will get their funding back tomorrow.

If this goes past two weeks I have to start laying off staff. We literally won't be able to cover payroll. Let alone how to handle landlords waiting for us to pay rent and utility companies waiting for their pay.

Thankfully with tenant rights laws in New York it would take months to sometimes years for an eviction to go through so we should be able to keep everyone currently housed in their homes.

easygoingfemme · 01-29-2025, 03:57 PM

There is a temporary ban on the freeze, or lift. We were able to draw HUD funds today but not funds from grants. It takes three days for the funds to arrive though so we're not taking a deep breath yet. cheeto already put out a statement that this was a revocation of the memo, not the freeze. We're not out of the water by a long shot.

ICE has been patrolling our food banks. I've been immersed in ICE response trainings all day and our directing team starts training the agency on Friday.

My kiddo works in HIV care and we've been back and forth all day regarding policy development. It's so ominous.

easygoingfemme · 02-11-2025, 06:19 PM

We learned yesterday that the large secure database we use to document and track domestic violence incidents, services, and sheltering has eliminated the word "gender" and only offers ways to document services to individuals with a sex of "male" or "female".

So we won't be able to track incidents of domestic violence for the trans community nor will we be able to provide statistics that justify funding and grants for trans-inclusive services and safe shelters.

01-28-2025, 12:27 PM	#1
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,975 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	As an update, there are no more messages about the funding being available shortly. The platform we use to draw funds from is gone. This is a combination of HUD, the office for prevention of domestic violence, and the office of crime victims. Gone.

01-28-2025, 04:39 PM	#4
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,975 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	Tonight a temporary ban on the freeze was put in for "some programming". I don't know what programs will get their funding back tomorrow. If this goes past two weeks I have to start laying off staff. We literally won't be able to cover payroll. Let alone how to handle landlords waiting for us to pay rent and utility companies waiting for their pay. Thankfully with tenant rights laws in New York it would take months to sometimes years for an eviction to go through so we should be able to keep everyone currently housed in their homes.

01-29-2025, 03:57 PM	#5
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,975 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	There is a temporary ban on the freeze, or lift. We were able to draw HUD funds today but not funds from grants. It takes three days for the funds to arrive though so we're not taking a deep breath yet. cheeto already put out a statement that this was a revocation of the memo, not the freeze. We're not out of the water by a long shot. ICE has been patrolling our food banks. I've been immersed in ICE response trainings all day and our directing team starts training the agency on Friday. My kiddo works in HIV care and we've been back and forth all day regarding policy development. It's so ominous.

02-11-2025, 06:19 PM	#6
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,975 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	We learned yesterday that the large secure database we use to document and track domestic violence incidents, services, and sheltering has eliminated the word "gender" and only offers ways to document services to individuals with a sex of "male" or "female". So we won't be able to track incidents of domestic violence for the trans community nor will we be able to provide statistics that justify funding and grants for trans-inclusive services and safe shelters.