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Unauthorized (commonly called “illegal”) immigrants are generally ineligible for most federal housing assistance programs such as public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8), and other rental ...
Illegal (undocumented) immigrants affect the U.S. housing market primarily by adding demand—especially in the rental sector—and by supplying critical labor to construction, but the magnitude and direc...
Banks and nonbank lenders do offer pathways for undocumented immigrants—most commonly via ITIN-based mortgages, community banks, credit unions and specialist nonbank lenders—but availability is uneven...
Fred Trump’s ability to build a vast real‑estate portfolio depended heavily on federal housing programs: underwrote financing and cash flow that private markets would not provide . Contemporary report...
Cities with the largest problems combined with the least capacity to absorb them cluster where housing is expensive and supply is tight—, , , / on the West Coast, , and stand out as places with very h...
Federal agencies routinely report Antideficiency Act (ADA) violations to the Government Accountability Office (GAO); GAO compiles annual summaries showing a range of examples from lease obligations to...
Landlords participating in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program remain bound by program rules when federal Housing Assistance Payments (HAP) are delayed: they cannot evict tenants solely for a...
The amount of federal Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) funding “at risk” in 2025 depends on which congressional appropriation path is adopted: under House proposals the program faces effective cuts that w...
Undocumented people are generally ineligible for most federal long‑term housing subsidies—Public Housing, Section 8 vouchers, and many USDA/HUD programs exclude unauthorized immigrants—yet important e...
’s administration pushed a multi-pronged agenda for veterans that centers on expanding health coverage (notably accelerating rollouts and adding presumptive conditions), increasing housing and homeles...
The available analyses show ; estimates vary widely by source and by what is counted. Government eligibility rules, program-by-program totals (for all participants), and several independent estimates ...
Three categories of legal action have already emerged in response to the July 24, 2025 executive order on homelessness: multi‑state litigation challenging federal funding and HUD policy changes, litig...
President Trump’s FY2026 discretionary budget request sought an overall discretionary topline of about $1.75 trillion while proposing to cut non‑defense discretionary (NDD) spending by roughly $163 bi...
California’s 2025 affordable-housing eligibility is tied to federal and state income limits that are set as percentages of Area Median Income (AMI): programs commonly use Extremely Low (≤30% AMI), Ver...
The 2018–2019 U.S. federal government shutdown ran from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019, lasting , and it was the longest partial shutdown in modern U.S. history at that time . The shutdown aros...
The Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program is , which sets policy, issues regulations, provides funding, and conducts compliance monitoring; HUD’s central role is reiterated across multiple 2024–202...
The signed to reopen government provided full-year FY2026 appropriations for three of the 12 regular bills—Agriculture; Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (MilCon-VA); and the Legislative Branch—...
Senators who opposed the -deadlines">continuing resolution (CR) did so at the intersection of three pressures: interchamber dealmaking that left policy fault lines unresolved, Senate-specific procedur...
The label "Dr. Ben" is ambiguous: it can refer to high-profile figures such as neurosurgeon and former HUD Secretary , the Afrocentric writer Yosef Ben‑Jochannan (commonly called "Dr. Ben"), or a rang...
Filing a HUD complaint for Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher) problems follows a tiered process: start locally with the public housing agency (PHA), exhaust internal grievance and hearing procedures, ...