Members Warn of HUD Program Cuts, Urge Major Increases to Housing Accounts

WASHINGTON — Members of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development warned during a member-day hearing that recent federal actions and funding cuts have put critical housing programs at risk and urged large increases in fiscal 2026 appropriations to protect vulnerable households.

Representative Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) told the subcommittee she is “deeply concerned about the state of housing” and said actions by the current administration have reduced staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), delayed funding and “severely undermined housing protections” for underserved communities. “In the state of Illinois, almost 400,000 people rely on subsidized housing,” Ramirez said. She said about $60,000,000 in funding was “thrown into limbo” by recent federal directives.

The warning was echoed by Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who described rising homelessness, constrained housing production and what she called increasing purchases of single-family housing…