Mini-Post: The Racists Are At It Again!

 As you read this... I want you to keep this in the back of your mind. At the same time trump is rounding homeless people up they have cut funding to housing programs and a proposed cut of over $532 million to Homeless Assistance Grants!

HUD launches English-only initiative for all department services: ‘Speak with one voice and one language’

The New York Post

By Ryan King and Josh Christenson

Aug. 17, 2025

The Department of Housing and Urban Development is making English the sole language used for virtually all of its services and affairs, according to a new memo obtained by The Post.

HUD’s deputy secretary wrote the memo, set to be sent out on Monday, advising department leadership of the changes, in keeping with President Trump’s executive order in March to designate English as the official US language.

“We are one people, united, and we will speak with one voice and one language to deliver on our mission of expanding housing that is affordable, helping those in need, caring for our most vulnerable Americans, and revitalizing rural, tribal, and urban communities,” HUD deputy secretary Andrew Hughes wrote.

But.... a large portion on the unhoused are non-English speaking. We done have any definite numbers because they don't breakdown the data on language. However, reports have shown that,

In recent years, data from the annual PIT* Count has shown that Latinos are proportionally represented in the population of people experiencing homelessness and, in some regions, even slightly underrepresented. In 2021, Latinos comprised 18.8 percent of the overall population in the 2021 American Community Survey and were slightly overrepresented in the 2022 PIT Count nationally, where they comprised 24.1 percent of roughly 582,000 people who were reported as experiencing homelessness. In heavily Latino communities like Los Angeles County, Latinos represent 49 percent of the overall population, but were just 36 percent of the population experiencing homelessness in 2020 and 44 percent of the population experiencing homelessness in 2022.

So with the cutting of funding for the homeless, the rounding up of the homeless in DC, and now with the switch to all English in HUD it will create even more unhoused! The combination of an English-only policy and the "rounding up" of the unhoused population has a demonstrably disparate and negative impact on Hispanic and Latino communities.

It is almost like they want to put them up their detention centers!

*PIT means Point-In-Time, on a cold winter's night in January volunteer's go to homeless shelters, and look under bridges or anywhere the unhoused may be stating and do a count of them. One year when I was a grad student, I took part in the count and I was assigned a long with other volunteers to count the shelter at South Park Inn, homeless shelter.