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Deep Cuts to Affordable Housing

President Trump’s and HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget request – released today – proposes to slash federal housing benefits that help millions of low-income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, and other individuals afford their homes. For more details, see NLIHC’s full analysis of the president’s budget request and our updated budget chart.

Overall, the administration proposes to cut HUD by an astounding $8.6 billion or 15% below 2020 enacted levels, not including those cuts offset by increased FHA receipts. At a time when the affordable housing crisis has worsened and homelessness is increasing in some communities, Secretary Carson’s proposal would eliminate vital housing programs, including the national Housing Trust Fund, and all funding for public housing capital repairs. He would eliminate the HOME Investments Partnership program and Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), starving communities of needed resources for affordable housing and community development. Secretary Carson proposes cutting public housing operating funds by 21% ($3.57 billion) and Housing for Persons with AIDS by 20% ($330 million).

Secretary Carson slashes funding for the Housing Choice Voucher program by $5 billion (not including additional increases needed to cover inflation). With these cuts, over 160,000 families who currently receive rental assistance could be at risk of losing their assistance and their ability to afford their home. As he has in previous years, Secretary Carson claims that the budget would continue rental assistance for all existing households. This is misleading and untrue: the proposed budget does not provide enough funding to cover the full cost of housing assistance without first imposing harmful rent increases and work requirements, none of which Congress is likely to pass.

NLIHC’s president and CEO Diane Yentel released a statement, calling the budget proposal “cruel and unconscionable.”

If enacted, this budget would leave even more low-income people without the affordable, accessible homes they need to thrive. For more details, see NLIHC’s full analysis of the president’s budget request and our updated budget chart.

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