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Last Thursday, July 10, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the appropriations bill for Transportation and Housing and Urban Development. HUD was budgeted at $42.4 billion, $4.73 over the FY2008 level and $3.3 over the President’s request.

The bill includes:

$80 million increase for HUD homelessness programs

$500 million increase above the President’s request for Section 8 Tenant-Based Housing program

$75 million to fund 10,000 new housing vouchers for homeless veterans, which is equal to the amount recommended by the House subcommittee on Transportation and Housing and Urban Development

$100 million of level funding for the Hope VI program. The President did not request any funding for this program.

On the House side, the bill has already passed through the subcommittee, and is awaiting approval by the full Appropriations Committee. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D- WI) has said that he has no intention to hold further full committee markups on fiscal year 2009 appropriations bills until Republicans agree to “follow regular order.” This threat comes after a June 26 markup session, during which Rep. Jerry Lewis (R- CA) offered the Interior-Environment spending bill as a substitute amendment for the Labor-HHS-Education bill being discussed.

This update is courtesy of the National Alliance to End Homelessness.

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