Cities Win Order Requiring Release of Federal Homeless Grants

A group of cities and counties including San Francisco, New York, and Boston won a court order Wednesday requiring the Trump administration to release federal grant money allocated to the localities for homelessness programs and transit projects.

Judge Barbara J. Rothstein at a hearing in Seattle granted the cities’ request for a 14-day temporary restraining order prohibiting the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Federal Transit Authority from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars in grants.

Those two agencies added conditions in March requiring localities to adhere to President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ...