Low-income families and communities would experience unprecedented cuts in housing assistance in fiscal year 2014 under a funding bill for the Department of Housing and Urban Development that a House Subcommittee recently approved. The House bill would cut funding to historically low levels that are below even the sequestration-reduced levels of 2013:
▪ The bill cuts Community Development Block Grant funds by $1.4 million, or 47% below the 2013 level. Communities use these funds to rehabilitate affordable single-family housing; improve damaged streets, sewers, and water systems; provide community services to seniors and children; and for a host of other activities.
• The bill also cuts funding for Home Investment Partnerships, a grant program that states and localities use to develop and preserve affordable single-family and rental housing, by $248 million, or 26%, below the post-sequestration level in 2013.
• Public housing agencies would lose $277 million, or 16%, of their current funding for the repair and renovation of public housing developments. The bill also underfunds public housing operations for the third year in a row, which will force low-income seniors, people with disabilities, and families with children to live in deteriorating conditions.
Sources: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/20/13, Housing Cuts; Center for American Progress, 6/24/13, CDBG
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