Congressman Steve Womack, Chair
Congressman James E. Clyburn, Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development and Related Agencies
House Committee on Appropriations
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, Chair
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Appropriations
VIA EMAIL
March 10, 2025
Dear Chairs Womack, Senator Hyde-Smith, Ranking Members Clyburn and Senator Gillibrand:
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), and the undersigned organizations oppose funding cuts to critical programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), including funding for housing counseling, fair housing programs, and funding for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) programs. We ask you to do everything possible to prevent cuts that would deprive Americans of critical programs and services.
If enacted, millions of Americans in almost every Congressional District will be affected by such programmatic cuts. HUD’s housing counseling programs serve millions of Americans and provide free guidance to help Americans buy homes, rent apartments, and avoid foreclosure. Fair housing programs protect all Americans’ access to housing regardless of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, and familial status, and have a strong record of success. In 2022 alone, HUD provided housing counseling services to almost 20,000 individuals and senior services to almost 464,000 senior citizens. During a nationwide affordable housing shortage, we ask you to support low- and moderate-income families’ access to housing and protect all Americans.
HUD’s CDBG-DR grant is another core program that helps millions of Americans. In late 2022, Congress appropriated $3 billion in CDBG-DR funding for states to use during the 2023 fiscal year. For example, Alabama and Georgia received approximately $10.4 million and $ 12.5 million, respectively for storms and floods, while Florida and Kentucky received $900 million and $297 million for Hurricane Ian, respectively. These programs helped millions of people survive disasters, build back their homes and livelihoods, and get entire communities back on track. As more Americans live in areas prone to natural disasters, we urge you to support disaster relief programs instead of cutting them.
HUD’s housing counseling, fair housing, and CDBG-DR programs have had decades-long bipartisan support because they have proven to be effective at helping people. They benefit Americans living in every Congressional district and remain especially critical during a period of extreme housing shortage, price inflation, and more frequent natural disasters. We urge you to stand firm against cuts to HUD’s programs.
Sincerely,
National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs
African Community Housing and Development
ANDP
Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development
Avanti Real Estate Services, LLC
Avenue CDC
Ayers Britton Consulting
Baltimore Renters United
BBIF
BEAT, Inc.
Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust D/B/A Building Neighborhoods Together
Bridgeport Prospers
Broadway Christian Parish
CASA of Oregon
Catalyst CT
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh
CDFI Friendly South Bend
Central American Resource Center
Centre for Homeownership and Economic Development
Centro Cultural
Chicago Community Loan Fund
Chicanos Por La Causa
Coalition for Home Repair
Coalition for Homelessness Intervention and Prevention (CHIP)
Community Development Corporation of Oregon
Community Development Network of Maryland
Consumer Action
Consumer Credit and Budget Counseling, Inc
Consumers Council of Missouri
Creative Climate Co.
Credit Builders Alliance
DC Squared
Detroit Peoples Platform
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana
Fair Housing Resource Center
Family Centers
FHCWM
Florida Home Partnership
Florida Housing Counselor Network
Fridgeport
FSBC
H.E.L.P. Community Development Corporation
Haitian American CDC
HARLINGEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPEMNT CORPORATION
Hawai’i Alliance for Community-Based Economic Development
HomeBase Cincinnati
Homeownership Council of America
Homes on the Hill CDC
Homestead Resources
Horizon Housing Communities
Housing Oregon
Housing Research & Advocacy Center dba Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research
HousingWorks RI
Jurisdiction-wide Resident Advisory Board
JustLeadershipUSA
Lawrence Community Works
Legacy CDC
Little Tokyo Service Center
Logan Heights Community Development Corporation
Long Island Housing Services, Inc.
Manna
Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations
Mental Health America of West Central Indiana, Inc.
Merced Housing Texas
Metropolitan Milwaukee Fair Housing Council
Minnesota Consortium of Community Developers
Montana Fair Housing
Movin’ Out, Inc.
National CAPACD- National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
Neighborhood Concepts, Inc.
Neighborhood Development Associates, LLC
Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Berks, INC
Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services
Neighborworks of Sacramento
NeighborWorks SOCO
NeighborWorks Southern Colorado
NeighborWorks Umpqua
New Hope Community Development
New Jersey Citizen Action
Northwest Counseling Services, Inc.
Northwest Indiana Reinvestment Alliance
Northwest Side Housing Center
NWCS, Inc.
OnPoint Solutions LLC
Open Doors
PACDC
Parkview Services
PathStone Corporation
Pathways to Housing DC
PCRG
People’s Self-Help Housing
Person to Person
Petworth Tenant Association
PLDTA
Prosperity Indiana
Proud Ground
PT Partners
R.A.A. – Ready, Aim, Advocate
REACH
Regional Housing Legal Services
Results One LLC
Rise Economy
Rural Housing Coalition of New York
Seabury Resources for Aging
South Dallas Fair Park ICDC
Southern Dallas Progress Community Development Corporation
Southside Organizing Center
Southwest (Philadelphia) Community Development Corporation
Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone Inc
St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Alliance (SLEHCRA)
St. Petersburg Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. dba Neighborhood Home Solutions
The Bronx Neighborhood Housing Services CDC Inc
The Center for the Homeless
The Housing Council at PathStone
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC)
Tyler House Tenants Association
United South Broadway
Urban Strategies, Inc.
Utah Housing Coalition
Washington Homeownership Resource Center
Working In Neighborhoods
YWCA North Central Indiana
