Trump administration throws hundreds of affordable housing projects into limbo after contract cuts

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Source: AP

Updated 6:42 PM EST, March 7, 2025


The Trump administration has stalled at least $60 million in funding intended largely for affordable housing developments nationwide, throwing hundreds of projects into a precarious limbo, according to information and documents obtained by The Associated Press

The move is part of a flurry of funding freezes, staffing cuts and contract cancellations by the Trump administration at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, changes that have instilled widespread uncertainty in the affordable housing industry.

The some $60 million is intended to go to small community development nonprofits in small grants. The money is often used as seed funding for affordable housing projects, turning a concept into a viable development and consequently drawing in more public and private investment.

Congress chose three nonprofits to distribute the grants, but HUD said in letters that it was cancelling contracts with two of the organizations, which together were to distribute the $60 million. That’s pushed millions in funding already promised to small nonprofits, or yet to be awarded, into the twilight zone.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/affordable-housing-trump-doge-hud-funding-af0cadf5238f1654d723350cc2e8e0f7

[BoRaGard]

1. "Ha ha. Suckers and losers. Ha ha" - G.O.P.

[2naSalit]

2. I hope the...

Magats of Magatana feel this one real hard. Affordable housing in this state is nonexistent. Some attempts, by a nonprofit not the state government, is heading up all the affordable housing efforts and falling far short due to the state magats trying to social engineer the population.

[LilElf70]

3. Trump isn't just out to

save money. He's out to destroy the government. How can members of Congress just sit back and say "go for it" Donny?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. "How can members of Congress just sit back and say "go for it" Donny?"

They have been brainwashed ( "conditioned" ). Not unlike -

[IbogaProject]

5. I bet there is a racial element in this

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I suspect they are targeting minority run and/or projects in minority dominant areas. Why else would they waste time fishing around for such small slivers of the federal budget?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The goal is to "eliminate"

those they consider "the other" - in words, actions, and deeds.

They system of apartheid was born from South African racists adopting many of the practices that had been put in place in the U.S. during the first Jim Crow era that preceded South Africa's "modern" apartheid system by several decades.

Now a racist South African white supremacist has bought himself a seat at the table and is going to "give something back" in return.

[electric_blue68]

7. I wouldn't be suprised. And I didn't know that SA took some of it's Apartheid approach from early Jim Crow laws etc.

I know what Jim Crow is, and what Apartheid is, but not it 's early connection. Woah

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They already had some severe restrictions/laws after the Boer War(s)

but in the "modern' era, ended up adopting/mirroring many of the legal mechanisms that had been put in place here and kept them in place until the 1990s.