Federal judge orders HUD to restore DOGE cuts to housing watchdogs

DOGE-ing HUD: Why ROI Must Drive Homelessness Solutions - R Street Institute

This analysis is in response to breaking news and will be updated. Please contact pr@rstreet.org to speak with the authors. In the name of “government efficiency,” the Trump administration is slashing budgets for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), stalling over $60 million in funds for affordable housing projects across the country—a... The post DOGE-ing HUD: Why ROI Must Drive Homelessness Solutions appeared first on R …

Judge orders HUD to release $30 million in grants to fair housing groups

A FEDERAL JUDGE in Massachusetts has ordered roughly $30 million in grants that were stripped midstream from fair housing organizations reinstated, after organizations including a Holyoke-based center sued the Trump administration demanding the return of their grant funding. On February 27, organizations received notifications that 78 Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants were being cut off. The rationale at the time was simply that each grant…

Federal judge orders HUD to restore DOGE cuts to housing watchdogs

Long Island Housing Services said the judge's order gives it greater confidence it will get paid for its work to fight housing discrimination.

Federal judge restores DOGE funding cuts to Fair Housing Center

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to restore grants to the Fair Housing Center for Rights & Research in Cleveland that had been stopped midstream as part of DOGE cuts. The Fair Housing Center is one of four plaintiffs in national class action lawsuit asserting that HUD couldn’t abruptly cancel fair housing grants at the order of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The judge’s order means…

A federal judge filed a temporary restraining order that saves the group’s access and punishes the team’s fraud work. “He has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, with no concrete knowledge that the needle is really in the haystack,” Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander wrote. “For many children, breakfast and lunch at school is all they are eating,” said Emma Jagoz, a farmer in Maryland who supplies food through the program. “No…

Federal judge temporarily cancels HUD cuts to fair housing grants

After fair housing groups filed a recent lawsuit to challenge U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) cuts to fair housing grants, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a temporary order to stop HUD’s cancellation of the grants. The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), which brought the suit with law firm Relman Colfax, lauded the decision in an announcement on Tuesday. Groups in the states of Massachusetts, Idaho, Texas and O…