Ending homelessness just got more complicated

Mayor Darrell Steinberg was just getting off a plane Wednesday evening, capping an encouraging trip to Washington, D.C., to discuss his innovative plan to use federal dollars to reduce homelessness, when President Donald Trump’s so-called “skinny budget” landed with a big, fat thud. In a level of cost-cutting not seen since the days of Ronald Reagan, the Trump administration has cruelly proposed to whack federal domestic spending by billions, including more than $6 billion from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.