Housing

In Smart Dissent's Budget Cuts Series, we are detailing many of the White House proposed budget cuts.  We seek to learn and share what's hidden beneath the surface.  Today's subject is housing aid, a program operated by HUD to protect the most vulnerable in our nation, which is set to be cut drastically under Trump's proposed budget causing devastation for millions.  But hidden beneath the surface is something not widely reported until last week.

In an effort to cut domestic spending by more than $50 billion, Trump's budget proposal would slash the budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The plan would squeeze public housing support and end most federally funded community development grants, which provide services such as meal assistance and cleaning up abandoned properties in low-income neighborhoods.