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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
Federal responsibility for funding military and veterans’ housing shifted in form between the Biden and Trump periods: under Biden-era budgets and Pentagon practice, Congress and the Defense Departmen...
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 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 ...
Applying for Section 8 in 2025 requires contacting your local Public Housing Agency (PHA), checking for open waiting lists or lotteries, preparing income and identity documents, and responding promptl...
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...
Texas’s state budget receives significant federal support largely through categorical —notably health care (Medicaid), transportation and infrastructure grants, federal education funding, and disaster...
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 ...
reframed the federal approach to homelessness, mental illness and public safety by directing agencies to expand civil commitment and institutional treatment for people with serious mental illness (SMI...
The administration has put into motion a substantial portion of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint, translating elements of the plan into executive orders, agency rules, and budget reque...
Olmstead v. L.C. is the 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held unjustified segregation of people with disabilities is discrimination under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and requi...