Posted on 04/22/2025 8:01:11 AM PDT by cgbg
The Trump administration has considered sharply curtailing vouchers as part of its budget for the 2026 fiscal year...
Administration officials recently discussed cutting or canceling out the vouchers and other rental assistance programs and potentially replacing them with a more limited system of housing grants, perhaps sent to states...
The cuts to housing programs come in addition to an exodus of the agency’s work force. As of last week, about 2,300 employees opted to accept an offer for “deferred resignation” and leave their jobs...
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While I don't have precise numbers the staff cutting at HUD is a lot greater than just the 2,300 employees noted in the article.
Hundreds more retired or quit when they were required to report back to the office.
At the end of the day by the end of September HUD staff will probably be reduced to about half of what they were in January.
Many more jobs will be abolished as local offices will have major functions eliminated.
The HUD building in Washington DC is up for sale and remaining HUD staff will be moving to much smaller quarters.
If anyone needs help over-riding the paywall let me know.
Sounds like winning to me.
‘Jesus stated, “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me,”’
The question I have is how many are poor because of unfortunate circumstances and how many make a living off of being poor?
I am hearing a lot of stories like this....mass exoduses by government staffers, huge cuts in funding, whole departments being shuttered, etc... but the Federal budget is bigger next year than it was last year.
What are they going to spend all of that extra money on?
A large percentage of the poor make a long series of bad decisions over and over and over. No reason to reward or support that.
What are they going to spend all of that extra money on?”
Extra? Have you seen the deficit or the debt?
I work 60 to 80 hours a week. There are poor living better than I am right now.
It’s hard not to want to join them on the government gravy train.
We don’t know what the federal budget is for FY 2026 (beginning October 1, 2025) yet.
The White House has not even submitted their formal budget proposal to Congress.
See post 8.
IS IT “AN UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCE” WHEN YOU REFUSE TO ATTEND SCHOOL & LEARN SOMETHING USEFUL FOR YOUR ADULT YEARS?
WHEN YOU USE/DEAL DRUGS?
WHEN YOU DRINK TO EXCESS?
GAMBLE?
DELIBERATELY BEAT/HARM FAMILY MEMBERS & OTHERS?
WHEN YOU SPEND YOUR USELESS HOURS SEEKING OUT A VICTIM FOR OTHER HARM YOU CAN CAUSE?
COMMIT ROBBERY OR BURGLARY?
WHEN YOU BEHAVE LIKE THIS FOR THE EARLY YEARS OF YOUR LIFE-—
YOU ARE REFUSING TO THINK ABOUT ANYTHING THAT CAN HAPPEN.
I HAVE A VERY HARD TIME CALLING THAT “UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES”
So the CR that they just passed in March only goes through October? I assumed it funded the government for a year.
Yes and there’s a lot of generational welfare out there that needs to end. I think its called the cycle of poverty. Two or three generations of a family where nobody has ever worked.
CR is only until September 30.
True but there are folks, due to illness or accident or circumstances out of their control, who are willing to work but unable to get or hold a job that need assistance ... not for a life time but long enough to climb out their dilemma. On the other hand you have people that make themselves disabled, one way or another, and just live off the government dole. The real problem is how to separate them and are the folks responsible for enrolling folks on welfare willing to spend the time and energy necessary to do that.
The administration’s answer to the policy dilemma is simply this:
Let the states deal with it.
Expel 40 million illegals and housing will be plenty affordable for Americans.
Do you want some examples here from Helene or are you good? We had to rescue and relocate people who were living in rented travel trailers on the river.
One scourge is the lure of The Disability. Free government money to not work but traps you into poverty. Many people around here are almost illiterate. All they hear is “free money”.
Do you want some examples here from Helene or are you good? We had to rescue and relocate people who were living in rented travel trailers on the river.
One scourge is the lure of The Disability. Free government money to not work but traps you into poverty. Many people around here are almost illiterate. All they hear is “free money”.
“A large percentage of the poor make a long series of bad decisions over and over and over.”
And that carries over through multiple generations. Some families have no clue about any other lifestyle.
“WHEN YOU USE/DEAL DRUGS?
WHEN YOU DRINK TO EXCESS?
GAMBLE?”
Or smoke for years with the certain knowledge that it most likely will KILL you?
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