NLIHC Signs On to Letter Urging Appropriators to Fully Fund Housing Choice Voucher, Project-Based Rental Assistance, and Emergency Housing Voucher Programs

By Alayna Calabro, NLIHC Senior Policy Analyst 

NLIHC signed on to a letter urging appropriators to provide full funding for the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) Program, Project-Based Rental Assistance (PBRA), and continued assistance for Emergency Housing Voucher (EHV) households. The letter expresses concerns about the Administration’s FY26 budget proposal’s State Rental Assistance Program. The letter is signed by over 700 national, state, and local organizations.  

The letter urges the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD) to reject the president’s proposals to redesign and slash funding for HUD’s rental assistance programs. The Administration proposed combining HUD’s five largest rental assistance programs—HCV, PBRA, Section 202 Housing for the Elderly, Section 811 Housing for People with Disabilities, and public housing—into a state-run block grant, which would then be cut by an additional 43%. In addition to the devastating impact a 43% cut to rental assistance programs would have on households that currently rely on HUD assistance, over time, block-granting anti-poverty programs has been shown to lead to significant funding decreases for those programs. 

In addition to rejecting the Administration’s structural recommendations and proposed reductions in funding for rental assistance programs, the letter urges appropriators to fully fund the HCV program, including the Administrative Fee Account and the EHV program. The EHV program has been extremely successful, helping nearly 60,000 people and families—in particular families with children—find and maintain stable housing. Absent additional funding, the approximately 59,000 families that currently receive an EHV may slip into homelessness as they lose rental assistance. Finally, the organizations urge Congress to fully fund the PBRA program, which serves 1.3 million families. 

Read the letter here.