Local advocates are responding to leaked plans from the Trump administration to cut Section 8 housing vouchers, potentially replacing them with block grants. According to Michael Kane of LOFTE, these changes could lead to increased homelessness. The plan, which initially surfaced in The New York Times, involves reducing federal housing assistance in favor of a limited grant system directed at states. Advocates argue that this shift could diminish funding while also transferring responsibility from federal authorities to local governments, exacerbating an already critical housing affordability crisis.
Local advocates are sounding the alarm over leaked plans to cut Section 8 housing vouchers, warning the move could push millions into homelessness.
Michael Kane, Co-Chair of LOFTE, says the national tenants organization wants to "communicate strongly that this is not acceptable and that there should be no cuts to HUD rental housing assistance - they should be increasing it."
The leaked plan for 'deep cuts' to Section 8 housing vouchers from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) first appeared in an article in The New York Times on April 17.
Kane said block grants would give local governments more flexibility but less funding, and shift blame from the federal government to local housing authorities.
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