If you cut expenditures and revenue simultaneously, you might not solve the problem.
HUD's Office of Disaster Emergency Management has never been fully operationalized.
There's not only a homelessness crisis; there is also an affordability crisis throughout the country for housing.
I urge you with all deliberate speed to get those allocations published.
The other point is that these disasters are occurring much more frequently.
It has been a long time since the storms broke, particularly for those people who have been put out of their homes literally.
I applaud you for doing that.
Those cuts don't appear to be arbitrary. They pose a real threat to already vulnerable populations.
This includes the elimination of critical infrastructure programs like Choice Neighborhoods, HOME, and the Community Development Block Grant...
the budget also proposes to eliminate public housing capital grants and to starve public housing agencies' operating budgets.
the fiscal year 2019 budget request before us seems to fall short of these goalposts and these objectives.