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. The budget proposal is just that and will probably encounter pushback from Congress. Yet keeping it open is “simply a prudent investment”, said Nan Roman, head of the National Alliance to End Homelessness. Usich “has been essential to the progress we’re seeing across the county that’s resulted in cuts to veteran homelessness by one half,” Poppe said.

Source: The Guardian March 16, 2017 22:13 UTC