FY 2011 HUD Budget Proposes $965 Million Termination/Reduction in Funding for Fair Housing, Non Profit Housing, and HOME programs

This is the first of several FY 2011 related federal budget postings.

In a document HERE, the Administration has identified discretionary programs it proposed to terminate or reduce funding for in its FY 2011 budget . For HUD, I count a reduction of $965 million for these terminations/reductions (all references are to PDF page numbers):

• $18 million termination of Brownfields Economic Development Initiative, pg 9
• $11 million reduction in Fair Housing Activities Program, pdf page 75,
• $175 Million reduction in HOME Program, page 79
• $551 million reduction in Section 202 Elderly non profit housing program, page 85
• $210 million reduction in Section 811, Housing for Persons with Disabilities non profit housing program, page 85.
• Other savings, streamline redundant housing inspections, page 119.

Despite these proposed reductions keep in mind that the overall HUD budget in FY 2010 was a substantial increase from prior years; the link HERE is to the NLIHC chart of HUD budgets that includes data on FY 2010 and prior HUD appropriations.

The "Cliffs Notes" version of the HUD FY 2011 Budget from the Administration is HERE, and includes more details on both budget authority and outlays for major HUD programs, including comparisons to FY 2010 amounts.

In future posts I will provide links to the "WONK" versions of HUD FY 2011 budget documents.

Originally created and posted on the Oregon Housing Blog.