Trump administration halts program that keeps aging affordable housing livable
Source: ABC News
The Trump administration is halting a $1 billion program that helps preserve affordable housing, threatening projects that keep tens of thousands of units livable for low-income Americans, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.
The action is part of a slew of cuts and funding freezes at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, largely at the direction of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, that have rattled the affordable-housing industry.
Preserving these units gets less attention than ribbon-cuttings, but it's a centerpiece of efforts to address the nation's housing crisis. Hundreds of thousands of low-rent apartments, many of them aging and in need of urgent repair, are at risk of being yanked out from under poor Americans.
The program has already awarded the money to projects that would upgrade at least 25,000 affordable units across the country, and details of how it will be wound down remain unclear.
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contractors to up grade these homes.........that means no jobs............
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I've lived it!
From the time I was about 8 yrs old till 17 (we moved to our 2nd family apt when I was 7) we lived what was technically a nice, middle class building (first one was, too) where services, and sometimes repairs went quite wanting.
We had the equivalent each Winter of no hot water added up to a month's worth 2 to 3 days at time. Even a day or 2 here, and there along with that of no heat either.
Our elevator would break for 2 - 3 days at a time. While we only lived on the 2nd floor my mom had severe asthma, and her mom had had a heart attack a decade + earlier. So for them to possibly have to go out was scary!
Other people's apts would have repairs that would linger - when I was just post HS: my gift a wonderful SLR film camera; my dad enlisted me to take photos of them, and possibly problematic either gas meters, or electrical meters in the basement as they (tenets group) were going to try, and take him to Housing Court (yet, again?).
There were 2 summers where there were several fires in the basement! Decades later (and I was pretty astute, but I missed this entirely!) my sis said to me..."you know, those were arson fires.".
Finally in The Villlage Voice (former liberal - progressive famous weekly paper) some years after we had moved to a safe well kept building for the next 27 yrs about 15 blocks north of our previous building that former landlord made the VV's 10 worst landlords List!