Liberal groups opposed it, but conservatives praise the Trump administration’s latest plans to give housing programs such as Section 8 more control.
The proposal cuts the Federal Housing and Urban Development Division (HUD) and sends money to the state to run them. It also needs to reduce rental assistance by 40%, introduce a two-year limit on rental assistance for healthy adults, and terminate the housing voucher program.
Essentially, Florida will have more control over how HUD dollars are used through block grants.
Much of the rise in HUD spending over the past few years has been under the Biden administration during Covid.
In April 2021, the US Rescue Plan Act was passed, giving over 70,000 “emergency” housing vouchers to individuals who claimed to lose their homes due to the closure.
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The U.S. Inspector’s Office (OIG) warned the Trump and Biden administrations in 2020 and 2021 not to spend random federal dollars on “emergency purposes” during the pandemic.
During that period, OIG noted that those who were not even eligible were allowed to qualify for housing assistance and other welfare programs that he said led to fraud.
On their website, the HUD Inspector’s Office (HUD OIG) has a list of investigations and convictions of those who committed the fraud.
These include individuals convicted of bank fraud and wire fraud. OIG has many beliefs about bribery by government officials through HUD. Requests for unauthorized disaster recovery. Housing authorities’ convictions against the conviction of a real estate investor who conspired to embezzle federally funded public housing, money laundering, and fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in loans relating to commercial and multi-family property.
