Project Hope is a groundbreaking policy report outlining actionable steps New York City and State officials can take to shield low-income, homeless, and migrant individuals from the harmful policies outlined in the incoming Trump Administration’s Project 2025.

This report directly addresses the urgent challenges posed by this conservative policy blueprint, which aims to reshape federal governance within the first 180 days of the new administration.

In early 2024, right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation released the detailed 900-page policy book, Project 2025, to serve as a blueprint for the next conservative presidential administration. The Heritage Foundation’s plan includes unprecedented rollbacks to the civil rights and anti-poverty policy gains the United States has made over the past 50 years. It proposes massive rollbacks to social welfare programs critical to families experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) program benefits, a “mass deportation” plan, which will impact tens of thousands of homeless immigrant families, and the eradication of critical evidence-based education programs, like Head Start.

Project Hope is a response to the draconian plans laid out in Project 2025, and, more specifically, what we anticipate will be aggressive, fast sweeping policy changes during the first six months of the Trump Administration that would detrimentally impact low-income individuals and families experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. Endorsed by social service and advocacy organizations committed to ending homelessness for all, Project Hope is a call to action to New York state and local elected officials to combat the violent and inhumane policy proposals in Project 2025 and mitigate some of the immediate impacts of the ultra-conservative policy playbook.