Tell Congress to Provide Robust Funding for Affordable Housing and Reject Proposals to Slash Housing Benefits

Sign two letters calling on Congress to reject President Donald Trump’s FY19 proposals to slash funding to federal affordable housing programs and to impose harmful rent increases and arbitrary, wasteful work requirements. Sign the letter calling for robust funding for affordable housing programs here and the letter opposing the administration’s proposals to cut housing benefits here.

Mr. Trump’s FY19 budget request proposes massive cuts to HUD and USDA Rural Housing programs that help millions of low income seniors, people with disabilities, families with children, low-wage workers, veterans, and other vulnerable people afford their homes. In addition to severe funding cuts and in some cases the elimination of critical programs, the proposals include harmful rent increases and wasteful work requirements that would leave even more low income people without a stable home.

Groups concerned about housing, community development, and homelessness are circulating a letter urging Congress to ensure affordable housing and community development programs receive the highest allocation of discretionary funds possible for FY19. Last year, more than 3,400 national, state, and local housing and community development, faith-based, disability, and civil rights organizations, as well as officials in municipal, tribal, and state governments signed onto a similar letter. Read and sign this year's letter here.

NLIHC is also circulating a sign-on letter urging Congress to oppose any proposals that would cut housing benefits by increasing rents and imposing onerous and administratively wasteful work requirements on current and future tenants. Read and sign the letter here.

Please share these letters and encourage organizations in your network to sign on by March 16.

Read NLIHC President and CEO Diane Yentel’s recent “Point of View” article in Memo to Members and Partners on the president’s proposed spending cuts for the poor at: http://bit.ly/2otDpOz