Now is the time to be more vigilant than ever to increases in homelessness.
May 23, 2017
By Douglas Rice
President Trump’s 2018 budget (click here) for the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) proposes deep cuts in rental assistance for families and other aid for the nation’s poorest urban and rural communities, which would shrink the supply of affordable housing and increase homelessness and other hardships across the country.
Overall, the President requests $40.7 billion for HUD programs in 2018, $7.4 billion (15 percent) below what policymakers recently approved for 2017.....
It is a dangerous time for the poor, homeless, children, disabled and the elderly.
March 16, 2017
By Alastair Gee
While much of the attention (click here) given to Donald Trump’s budget proposal has focused on dramatic cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency and the state department, amid the many cuts in the plan is the elimination of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness (Usich).
In addition, Trump’s budget would cut billions of dollars of funding for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which helps provide low-income housing.
Diane Yentel, president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, warned in a statement that the proposal contained some of the deepest housing cuts since “President Reagan dramatically reduced funding in the early 1980s. Reagan’s deep spending cuts ushered in a new age of homelessness.”
In an interview, she said the reductions might result in 200,000 low-income people no longer receiving rental assistance, putting them at risk of losing the roofs over their heads. About 550,000 people were experiencing homelessness on one night in 2016....
It is Putin's Revenge. The Republicans proudly state their tax scam removes the federal government from the states. Well, it should be interesting to find out what Post-USA looks like when the federal government implodes of it's own budget and national debt.
Putin would love to see the fifty states floating alone. Post-Soviet Russia may come to pass with the Post-USA.
