Housing advocates decry Trump budget cuts

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Source: The Hill

Advocates for housing programs are bashing President Trump's proposal to slash funds and accessibility to housing assistance. Trump proposed cutting a slew of federal programs to the bone in his fiscal 2021 budget released this month, but he took a particularly hard swing at housing aid.

In addition to calling for reduced funding at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the White House also called for changes to mandatory programs designed to provide housing assistance for low-income residents.

Overall, Trump’s budget would cut $8.6 billion from housing programs, a 15 percent reduction. Deeper cuts, to the tune of 43 percent, would hit public housing funds while also eliminating programs such as the National Housing Trust Fund, Home Investment Partnerships, Community Development Block Grant and Choice Neighborhoods.

The administration’s proposal would require some low-income program participants to pay a higher percentage of their income toward rent while also calling for work requirements and other restrictions for certain housing assistance.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/finance/housing/484132-housing-advocates-decry-trump-budget-cuts

[packman]

1. Well, since Mexico isn't paying for that wall

Someone has too - only makes sense.

[jmbar2]

2. The comments following that article are disturbing

Putin has found another wedge to increase friction in society.

[Maxheader]

3. The wingers hate any assistance..

For the downtrodden..Whether health, jobs, family planning..or housing..

The HUD rigging scandal occurred when Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce and his associates rigged low income housing bids to favor Republican contributors to Reagan's campaign as well as rewarding Republican lobbyists such as James G. Watt Secretary of the Interior. Sixteen convictions were eventually handed down,including the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_administration_scandals

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. There must be a new round of tax cuts for the rich coming down the pike.

Who needs social programs anyway?

I'm old enough to remember that during the Cold War the Republicans resisted every single new and existing social program based on need for money for the military. Their argument was that once the Cold War was won (which they figured would never happen) there would be a "peace dividend" that could be used to pay for these social programs. Then the Soviets surrendered. Oops!

So they invented "trickle down economics," a theory that massive tax breaks for the very rich would trigger investments which would provide many, many jobs. That turned out to be a lie -- the rich stuck their windfall under the mattress.

9-11 was a godsend. As "the first war of the twenty-first century" (Dubya's words) the so-called "war on terror" became a bottomless pit of military spending. When you're fighting an imaginary enemy you can't have enough weapon systems.

We can't cut back on military spending during a war, can we?

Trump is just the latest incarnation of Republican hatred of the poor and middle class which began under Reagan, if not before. He even despises the military, stripping billions from desperately need projects to pay for his ego wall.

My fear is that he will be re-elected, and that he'll view that as even more validation than being "acquitted" by the Senate Republicans. Having purged the government of those he deems not sufficiently loyal, having destroyed the intelligence community, having appointed more than 20% of Federal judges and probably six SCOTUS justices, and with the view that the rest of the world is laughing at the U.S. (which he identifies as himself), Trump II will be more destructive to our country than any war or Russian attack.

#Sad

[SergeStorms]

6. He's yet to find a way....

to pay for the GOP's last round of windfalls to the wealthy. I guess we have to pay for these tax cuts somehow, because supply-side economics has worked so well before.

[They_Live]

5. No. no. NO!

Every day a new outrage! Team trump has to go now.