The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): FY2006 Budget (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Feb. 28, 2006 |
| Report Number |
RL32869 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Bruce Foote, and Maggie McCarty, and Libby Perl, Domestic Social Policy Division; and Eugene Boyd, Government and Finance Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
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Summary:
In February 2005, a House Appropriations Committee reorganization plan abolished the
Veterans
Affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Independent Agencies
Subcommittee, sending HUD to a new Treasury, Transportation, Judiciary, Housing and Urban
Development, District of Columbia and Related Agencies Subcommittee. A similar but not
identical
change was made in the Senate, creating the Transportation, Treasury, HUD
Subcommittee.
On February 7, 2005, the Administration submitted a $29.1 billion FY2006 budget request for
HUD, which is 9% less than was provided in FY2005. The most controversial part of the budget
proposal would have eliminated the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program in
HUD and transferred its purposes to the Department of Commerce, combining it with 17 other
programs (that had approximately $5.6 billion of appropriations in FY2005) into a new $3.7 billion
Strengthening America's Communities Initiative (SACI) grant program. The President's budget
proposal also included increased funding for Section 8 tenant-based rental vouchers, Homeless
Assistance Grants, and the HOME program; decreased funding for Housing for the Disabled (Section
811), Housing for Persons with AIDS, and Fair Housing programs; and elimination of funding for
the HOPE VI program.
On June 30, 2005, the House approved an FY2006 HUD appropriations bill, H.R. 3058 , funding HUD at more than $4 billion above the President's requested level. The bill, which
rejected the President's SACI initiative, would fund CDBG at HUD and increase funding above the
President's request for several HUD programs.
On October 20, 2005, the Senate passed its version of H.R. 3058 , providing for
HUD more than $5 billion above what the President requested and more than $1 billion above what
the House version allocated. Like the House bill, the Senate version rejected the President's SACI
initiative and proposed to fund CDBG and related programs within the HUD budget, and increase
funding above the President's request and the House-approved level for several HUD programs,
including HOPE VI and Section 811.
On October 28, 2005, the President submitted to Congress a rescission and reallocation package
that would rescind $124 million in HUD funding and transfer $2.2 billion to HUD from FEMA's
disaster relief fund. A modified version was attached to the FY2006 Defense Appropriations law
( P.L. 109-148 ), providing $11.9 billion for HUD. That bill also contained a 1% across-the-board
rescission that applies to all of HUD's discretionary programs.
On November 18, 2005, the House and Senate approved a final version of the FY2006 HUD
appropriations bill. It does not adopt the CDBG transfer, and funds most programs between the
House- and Senate-approved levels.
