How to cut rent assistance can push over 60,000 Americans out of their homes

Tens of thousands of Americans may soon lose important fare support under federal Emergency housing voucher (EHV) The program is expected to funds until the Congress intervenes, till the end of 2025. US Housing and Urban Development Department (Hood) In a letter received by the Associated Press, warned that no additional amount is likely to be coming up.
This can cause mass Expulsion Of about 60,000 families and individuals, many of whom have survived HomelessDomestic misconduct, or human trafficking.
In 2021, the President Joe Biden’s Pandemic-era was part of the American rescue scheme, an EHV program, was allocated a $ 5 billion to provide fare aid. This supported people across the country – from children and seniors to veterans – with the hope that wealth would be money through decade. But the increasing fare has accelerated the shortage of the program.
“It will fully fulfill the progress to close,” said Sonya Acosta, the Center’s policy analyst on budget and policy priorities. “And then you multiply it from 59,000 homes.”
Democratic representative. Maxin waters Advocating the expansion of $ 8 billion, but the Congress is faded in the Congress amid the Republican-led budget-cutting efforts. Kim Johnson of the National Low Income Housing Alliance said, “We have been told that this is going to be a difficult fight.” The four major Republican MPs involved in the budget talks have not commented.
The situation is deeply individual for people like Duniris Aspinal, who ran away Domestic violence And being homeless. With an emergency housing voucher, the aspinal achieved a three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with his daughters-a place that would spend more than $ 3,000 per month.
“I gained my ability, my sense of peace, and I was able to rebuild my identity,” the aspinal said. Now, however, he is afraid that all this may slip. “This is my fear, losing control of everything I have worked so hard.”