The Feds killing HUD is killing us!!!

Hey everyone!

In spite of the fact Congress still has not passed the 2018 budget (hearing expected mid-March) Trump just released his proposed budget for 2019 and surprise more bad shit for poor people!! Trump's proposed 2019 HUD budget will cut approximately $6.8 billiion from 2018.

Things are ass backwards because of the budget delays but no matter how you look at it the proposals keep getting more and more draconian and as with all the health and basic assistance programs, more punitive. Below is a National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) press release and National Low-Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) summary of Trumps 2019 proposals. Also, WRAP's Poster and Fact Sheet on the 2018 budget still in process right now! Our message needs to be loud and clear - The Feds are not just "trying" to kill HUD - they "ARE" killing it and have been since 1980, slash by slash - sell off by sell off. The reality is they are killing PEOPLE not a bureaucracy, real Human Beings are living and dying in our streets every day because war is more profitable then people!!

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National Alliance of HUD Tenants 42 Seaverns Avenue/Jamaica Plain/MA/02130 617-522-4523 naht@saveourhomes.org

HUD Tenant Leaders Demand Congress Declare Trump's 2019 Budget "Dead on Arrival"

Contact: Ed Lucas 312-285-6520 renacerwestside@gmail.com or Michael Kane 617-233-1885 naht@saveourhomes.org

Elected leaders of the national US tenants union today demanded immediate rejection by Congress of President Donald Trump's 2019 budget request, released on February 12.

"Trump's budget will push millions of people from their homes; starve seniors, children and families; and deny health care to millions of people," said Ed Lucas, President of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT), who lives in a resident-owned, HUD-assisted building in Chicago. "People will die if these proposals see the light of day. Congress should declare Trump's 2019 budget dead on arrival instead."

Trump's budget proposes to cut 200,000 people from Section 8 Vouchers next year-10% of the total-and an astounding 37% from Public Housing operating budgets, already underfunded at 85% of needs. Trump proposes zero funds to address the $40 billion backlog of needed health and safety repairs in Public Housing. Overall, the $6.8 billion in proposed cuts would be the deepest cuts in HUD’s history.

Trump again proposes draconian rent increases for millions of Americans who receive HUD rental assistance. Trump's budget would raise rents for most tenants from 30 to 35% percent of income, triple "minimum rents" paid by the most destitute, and eliminate deductions that keep rents affordable for seniors and disabled people. The budget repeals Section 8 Enhanced Vouchers, which would immediately displace more than 30,000 families and seniors across the nation. Overall, rents would jump overnight an average of 20% for 4.6 million households-and an incredible 83% for HUD tenants in Puerto Rico!

"Trump wants to cut taxes for the richest of the rich, paid for by raising rents on the poorest of the poor", comments Deborah Arnold, 54, a minister and community activist and NAHT Vice President from Atlanta, Georgia. "80% of HUD tenant households are led by women. We, too, demand that Congress reject Trump's vicious assault on the women, children, elderly and disabled people who live in HUD housing."

Trump will soon propose "work requirements" for HUD rental assistance, Food Stamps and Medicaid. NAHT leaders denounced these proposals as administratively wasteful, ineffective and punitive, especially in the absence of jobs, training and resources to make them work. "Trump lives in public housing-the White House. Will a work requirement be imposed on him?," asked Geraldine Collins, 63, a disabled, retired medical administrator and NAHT VP/East who lives in senior housing on Manhattan's Upper West Side. "Congress should make Trump do something useful, rather than tweeting, playing golf, watching cable TV, and destroying the nation's social safety net." See Poster Here>>>>>