Amidst record-high ranges of homelessness, with older adults being the quickest rising group experiencing homelessness, the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) and its applications are beneath critical risk.
HUD offers housing and homelessness help to the lowest-income households, together with almost 5 million older adults and people with disabilities. HUD additionally enforces civil rights legal guidelines, such because the Truthful Housing Act, which prohibit housing discrimination.
At the moment, the Trump Administration is working to dismantle HUD and truthful housing protections. Unprecedented actions embody:
These assaults on HUD and truthful housing will lead to extra homelessness amongst older adults and other people with disabilities. We want pressing motion to protect HUD applications and other people’s rights to entry housing with out discrimination.
We name on Congress to guard HUD and its responsibility to advertise truthful housing for all. We urge these in our community to do the identical by contacting your members of Congress.
