Defending the Equal Access Rule

3/11/2025

National Alliance to End Homelessness,
Written by Alec Vandenberg
February 19, 2025

Importantly, the Equal Access Rule is still in effect, as the recission of the rule is neither legal nor enforceable until HUD formally withdraws it via the rulemaking process. Advocates can begin taking steps today to defend the progress made by the Equal Access Rule, in particular the ability of and gender-expansive people (i.e., transgender people, non-binary people, or those who do not uniformly identify as “female” or “male”) to access services in the homelessness response system.

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