Fiscal Year 2006 Appropriations and Reconciliation for Housing Programs

The FY 2006 HUD budget accelerates a four year effort by the Bush Administration to dismantle critical HUD programs, to make deep funding cuts in these programs, and regretfully, to target these cuts to our most vulnerable low-income families, seniors, and disabled persons. Democratic members have fought to preserve these critical HUD programs, and will continue to fight devastating and unnecessary spending cuts to these programs in the appropriations and reconciliation process.

 

Democrats regret that the Bush Administration is more interested in handing out large tax cuts that are disproportionately tilted to the wealthy than ensuring the survival of programs that are essential in taking care of the needs of the most vulnerable members of our society.

Click here to read the Additional Views of Committee Democrats on Recommendations for Reconciliation for Fiscal Year 2006 on FHA Asset Disposition.

Click here to read the Additional Views of Committee Democrats on Housing in the Fiscal Year 2006 Budget.

Click here to view a summary of the Bush Administration's FY06 Housing Budget: Continuing the Assault on the Most Vulnerable.

Click here for Rep. Frank's November 9, 2005 press release denouncing the Bush Administration's efforts to cut $100 million from HUD's program for construction of affordable housing for people with disabilities.

Click here to read Rep. Frank's June 29, 2005 floor statement on FY 2006 HUD Appropriations.

Click here for a March 15, 2005 press release urging the Budget Committee to resist President Bush's efforts to gut the Community Development Block Grant Program in the FY 2006 Budget.

Click here for Ranking Democrat Barney Frank's March 2, 2005 Statement for the Record on funding for Housing in the Fiscal Year 2006 Budget.