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Public Housing Squeezed Between Higher Utility Costs and Stagnant Funding
October 11, 2006
The nation’s public housing units provide affordable homes to about 1.1 million low-income households, approximately half of which are headed by people who are elderly or have disabilities. The local housing agencies that administer these units are required by federal law to rent them to low-income families at rents the families can afford. Those rents are often inadequate to … -
Press Release: Rebuilding Aid for Neediest Katrina Victims Should be Retained in Final Supplemental Funding Bill
May 9, 2006
The first federal housing assistance aimed specifically at poor households harmed by last year’s hurricanes could fall victim to House-Senate differences over emergency supplemental funding legislation, even though this funding is unrelated to “earmarks” that House leaders have vowed to … -
President's 2007 Budget Renews Same Number of Housing Vouchers Funded in 2006
Revised April 25, 2006
Executive Summary The President’s budget requests $15.9 billion in fiscal year 2007 for tenant-based rental assistance under the Housing Choice Voucher Program, the nation’s largest low-income housing program. The request would renew approximately 2,070,000 vouchers in 2007, about equal to the total number of … -
State Fact Sheets: Winners and Losers Under Administration's 2007 Housing Voucher Funding Plan
March 13, 2006
State-specific fact sheets containing information on the impact of the Administration's housing voucher funding plan are provided through the links below. Alabama Kentucky … -
Press Release: Many Communities Would Be Forced To Reduce Number of Housing Vouchers Under Administration’s Budget
March 13, 2006
The Administration’s proposed budget for the Housing Choice Voucher Program for 2007 would underfund roughly 70 percent of the state and local housing agencies that administer the program, according to a new Center analysis. These agencies would be forced to reduce the number of … -
Interested Parties Memo on the Initial Assessment of the President’s 2007 Budget: Impacts on Housing Voucher Program and Hurricane Recovery
Revised February 17, 2006
On February 6, the President released a budget request for fiscal year 2007 that proposes to cut $622 million (1.8 percent) from the HUD budget, in comparison to FY 2006 funding levels, not counting losses due to inflation. The request recommends major cutbacks in community development, …
