A recent post by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities reports on the impact of proposed funding cuts to the Section 8 program. The post notes that while the House and Senate Appropriations Committees both approved separate bills that would provide enough funding for fiscal year 2011 (which started October 1) to renew all vouchers now in use, neither has been enacted into law. In the meantime, leaders in Congress have made a series of proposals to make deep cuts to non-defense programs. CBPP breaks down of what could happen to voucher funding under three scenarios (summarized below):
- Omnibus” spending bill could mean loss of vouchers for 38,000 families.
- Long-term funding resolution could mean loss of vouchers for 100,000 families.
- Short-term funding resolution could mean loss of vouchers for 475,000 families.
CBPP reports that “Nothing in the proposals requires Congress to distribute the funding cuts uniformly across non-defense discretionary domestic programs but, if Congress chose to protect vouchers and other programs assisting vulnerable people from cuts, it would have to make even deeper cuts elsewhere.” Read More…
