US EditionTrump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities
The HOME program has funded over 1.3 million affordable homes, with 84% in districts that supported Trump in 2024, but faces cuts amid budget priorities and rising construction costs.
- President Donald Trump and House Republicans have proposed cutting funding for the federal grant program established in the 1990s under George H. W. Bush that supports affordable housing development and repair.
- The proposal follows years of stagnant funding and a temporary $900 million cut in 2015, which experts say has caused long-term setbacks in rural home building and affordable housing availability.
- Over the past three decades, the HOME program has financed the construction or renovation of over 1.3 million affordable homes nationwide, including approximately 540,000 located in predominantly rural districts that largely supported Trump in 2024; meanwhile, organizations such as Partnership Housing rely on this funding to continue their building efforts.
- Executive director Dave Clark said HOME is one of few programs enabling true workforce housing, but a HUD spokesperson claimed it is less effective than others and funds would be better used elsewhere.
- If cut, experts warn the loss would erode nonprofit developers' capacity to build affordable homes for rural and poor communities, worsening housing shortages and threatening a rural way of life preserved by the program.
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Heather Colley and her two children moved four times in five years fleeing high rents in East Tennessee, which, as much of rural America, has not been spared the dizzying increase in housing costs. A family gift in 2021 from a small plot of land offered a chance to have a home of their own, but building a house was out of reach of the 45-year-old single mother who earns $18.50 an hour. That changed when she got $272,000 from a non-profit organiz…
Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities - Boston News, Weather, Sports
Heather Colley and her two children moved four times over five years as they fled high rents in eastern Tennessee, which, like much of rural
'Just another nail in the coffin for rural areas': Affordable housing program faces the axe under Trump's tax, budget cuts
The HOME program has helped build or repair over 1.3 million homes in the last 30 years, 540,000 of them in rural districts, the AP found.
The Seattle Times
Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that’s a lifeline for many rural communities
President Donald Trump and House Republicans want to cut new funding for a housing grant that many rural areas rely on to help fund affordable housing.
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Trump wants to ax an affordable housing grant that's a lifeline for many rural communities
President Donald Trump and House Republicans want to cut new funding for a housing grant that many rural areas rely on to help fund affordable housing.
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