Even as President Trump bashes California leaders for mishandling the state’s homelessness crisis and threatens punitive measures, his administration’s housing team is sending millions of dollars to the state to help vulnerable residents stay in homes.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced last week it was awarding the Oakland Housing Authority more than $2.8 million as part of a program to help families that rely on public assistance relocate if their homes are demolished or converted to other uses.

“When a family living in public housing finds out that their unit will no longer be available, we want to make sure they are not displaced,” Hunter Kurtz, assistant secretary for Public and Indian Housing, said in a statement. “This funding allows HUD to keep its commitment of ensuring people have a decent, safe, and affordable place to live.”

The Oakland Housing Authority will receive the most money — more than half of the roughly $5,048,000 the agency is distributing to eight housing authorities in six states through a voucher program aimed at helping poor, elderly and disabled people find housing in the private market.

In Oakland, the housing authority will renovate Oak Grove Plaza North and South, senior housing complexes. The money will help keep 149 residents housed during construction work — mostly at nearby extended stay hotels — and allow them to move back into freshened up apartments by the end of next year.

“We want to enhance the quality and make sure elders have a place they can thrive and enjoy in their senior years,” said executive director Patricia Wells, adding that her organization will be in “constant contact” with residents during the renovation work to make sure their needs are being met.

The money will also allow Oak Grove residents to use housing vouchers someplace else, if they choose to move.

“It gives some mobility to our seniors,” Wells said.

The funding comes even as Trump bashes everyone from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) to Gov. Gavin Newsom for failing to address homelessness.

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10 numbers that sum up the stunning scope of COVID-19 shutdowns “Nancy Pelosi’s District in California has rapidly become one of the worst anywhere in the U.S. when it comes to homeless & crime,” Trump tweeted last week. “It has gotten so bad, so fast — she has lost total control and, along with her equally incompetent governor, Gavin Newsom, it is a very sad sight!”

Trump has issued vague threats about cracking down on the issue himself and a recent report from CityLab suggested he favors bolstering resources for police departments to remove homeless encampments and removing housing funds from cities, like Oakland, that tolerate encampments.

Yet, this particular project, Wells said, serves as an example of HUD “working in partnership with housing authorities to preserve the very precious units that each jurisdiction has.”