Three nonprofit fair housing organizations are suing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over the cancellation of approximately $30 million in grant funding.
The New York Times reported the lawsuit, which was filed in Massachusetts district court, accused HUD and DOGE of making an “egregious overstep” by terminating Fair Housing Initiatives Program grants that are distributed to state- and city-level nonprofits to enforce the federal Fair Housing Act. These nonprofits mostly have annual budgets of less than $1 million and rely heavily on the grants to operate.
The organizations filing the lawsuit are the San Antonio Fair Housing Council – which said it was forced to lay off more than half of its workforce – plus the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center and Idaho’s Intermountain Fair Housing Council, which both claimed to cut back on its services since the grant funding stopped.
Lila Miller, a lawyer at Relman Colfax, the firm representing the nonprofits, argued the funds termination was illegal because the grants were allotted by Congress and DOGE had no authority to coordinate HUD’s policies.
“Congress makes the law, and Congress sets the bounds of agency action,” she said.
LOL, when you are completely dependent on handouts, you’ll sue to keep them coming…HUD is a corrupt monster that needs to be eliminated along with most of the bureaucracy.
💯 agreed
So true. People have been mooching off these grants for decades
The government can stop funding these programs but in a democratic society, there is a right and a wrong way to terminate a contract. It is interesting that some people who claim to be “we the people” have not likely read the contract and yet seem to think they know how these contracts should be terminated. As a lawyer I regularly speak with potential clients who like “we the people” are on the receiving end of this type of decision and want to know what I am going to do for them. According to WTP, nothing I guess.
Quite possibility WE will have to take the responsibility for those in our communities who need assistance. Just like it was many many years ago when the neighbors and churches cared for the needy in our communities. Before government decided to take on the responsibilities of the people. In the last 100 years plus, we have gradually allowed government to grow out of control and take on societal issues that were never intended to be government responsibilities.
There is too much National Debt and Annual Deficits and our Nation has to be good stewards of the working taxpayers money. There are Nan good and worthy entities that are non-profit but that doesn’t mean Government Grant only funding. 2019 the Budget was $4.5 Trillion Dollars and 2025 it is over $7 Trillion Dollars. We cannot just deficit spend without trimming the budget.
We should go back to helping those in need by the local governments. There is a lot of red tape and people abusing the system. Yes, help out those who truly need it. If it is local, there won’t be too much fraud and waste.
I Germany they have the welfare police who can show up unannounced to see if the people really are the ones who are needy. It used to be this way in the past in this country, If a mother on welfare had men’s shoes in her closet, it meant that she may have been scamming the system.
And, reward people who are trying to get off the system and not take away their Medicaid.
With many families collecting the handouts it is generational. Their parents before the mooch off the system and their kids will mooch off the system…and the administrators of these grants have made their living enabling the moochers.
It is time to stop it.
Is NAR/StateAssociations/local Associations/state Licensing boards… on the list of filing a lawsuit? Hmmm.. why do we need all these CEIs to maintain our RE lic/appraisals/home inspectors/builders.. I could go on but ya get the drift.. Are they the ones upset??? Hmmm makes ya wonder.. double dipping as we as realtors pay a lot of fees.. ( or anyone associated with an association that begs for donations and charges fees to be part of “the(ir) program! Lmao
Bring on the lawsuits.. cause Trith will arise!
So… no housing help. Put ’em out on the streets! and those property owners who support Section 8 families don’t get paid.
Let’s also cut FHA and VA loan guarantees. “Those” people can look elsewhere for home financing . Forget that the veteran put his life on the line, and in some cases, died/blown up to pay the price, to defend our Constitution. But they are part of the DOGE deficit problem to be fixed.
So many complain about aid to the poor. So, sure, there is some corruption, so do something about that in a strategic and targeted way. But if you think that local government is NOT corrupt, then you haven’t been paying attention to hundreds of years of evidence to the contrary, including in recent years. Local governments are famous for corruption. It’s not just the Feds and the politicians who funnel money to pet projects.
WTP (who seems to be a troll) says nothing about the Trillions in welfare to Corporations in the form tax reductions, tax credits, depletion allowances on resources owned by the Public, government paid road building and clean up for Corporations that abuse the lands.
Look at the damage from the massive Sink Holes in the Permian Basin de to abandoned oil wells that were capped but have been failing, with dangerous collapses growing deeper and wider, and oil & gas seeping into water tables, but the original Oil companies who created this mess are, magically, NO longer responsible, so the public will be left with the mess, or the area will be abandoned, and the current owner’s property value will be destroyed (an owner who did not own the mineral rights and had nothing to do with that well), but the Oil companies march on with their massive profits, little or no taxes paid, and everyone else gets screwed.
If you want to end UNfair welfare, then let’s phase out the “Child Tax Credit”, which is a massive welfare system that has simply been legalized to screw those who do not have kids, don’t want kids, but are forced to subsidize the family size choices of other people, yet those who pay the most taxes (child-free people) have ZERO say in how those welfare child tax credit recipients raise their kids, which is often to teach those kids that it’s “The Other Welfare Queens and Papas” who are to blame for the high National Debt; NOT US!”.
The world is grossly over-populated at over 8.2 Billion and still rising, and the U.S. is grossly over-populated for HOW we consume, which is the highest consumer nation in the world, consuming 25% of globally extracted resources and products, meaning that the U.S. has the same impacts as IF it were an average nation of 2 Billion people, more than the impacts of India (1.45 Billion), China (1.42 Billion and slowly falling), and ALL of Africa (1.54 Billion and Rising).
We should NOT be giving incentives to have lots of children. I don’t mind helping with public schools for people who limit themselves to 1 child per 1 adult (or 2 children per couple), but the public should NOT be forced to subsidize endless breeders who are the reason why the world has so many human conflicts and environmental problems.
The world has about 5.4 Billion poor people in various categories of poverty.
There are 1 Billion who are chronically malnourished and go hungry.
Global resources are scarce in many categories, such as fresh wild fish resources.
Over-population has pushed farming into high production mode, with damaging and intensive and very cruel and polluting Factory Farming and GMO monocrop methods.
It’s damaging the soils, water, air, and the health of ecosystems and damaging the health of humans.
The dominant cultures have this recurring pattern of always out-breeding whatever technology was invented to deal with the prior over-population impacts, but then the breeders simply out-breed the new technology too.
Wars can be traced back to hyper resource competition as nations fight over dwindling resources, but those resources are dwindling because of Human Over-Population and wasteful and unnecessary consumerism, like too much crap, like fast fashion, etc.
Billionaires have rigged the financial system to pay an effective income tax of 3.5% or less. That is another huge reason why the National Debt has risen.
During Trump 1.0, the GOP and Trump pushed through a massive Billionaire tax giveaway, which led to the National Debt rising by 2 Trillion higher.
Trump 2.0 wants to do that again and make that giveaway PERMANENT, which will ADD another 4.5 Trillion to the National Debt, and that is WHY Musk is seeking ways to gut other agencies, including looking into how to steal from SS and Medicare.
The Muskrat team has deftly AVOIDED targeting the biggest and most wasteful discretionary spending category, The Department of Defense, and that is because Musk is charging the DOD Billions and Billions for his Musky Space Projects.
The Consumer Financial Affairs Bureau was shut down, but the CFPB had a fabulous track record of winning court cases against abusive companies that were ripping off consumers, nationwide, and returning Tens of Billions back to consumers. Those wins were forcing companies to change their policies to be more fair to consumers, like limiting overcharge penalties that were once ridiculously high. The MAGAs and GOP don’t like fair business practices, so the CFPB had to be destroyed.
Trump/Musk seek to cut the IRS funding and layoff half the staff, but for every $1 the IRS spends on going after rich cheaters, the IRS (and taxpayers) get back $10, a 90% gain for taxpayers, and tax money collected to pay down the National Debt.
But the GOP and MAGAs want to cheat on their taxes, so the IRS will be slashed.
When Clinton/Gore had 8 years to surgically, and carefully cut waste, the Federal debt not only disappeared, but even more happened because the Clinton/Gore legacy was a massive Federal SURPLUS, which George Bush II then gutted on Wars that were built on a series of lies, wars which we lost, while leaving the Taliban richer and stronger.
I’m 66 years old, and the pattern has been that the GOP overspends (tax breaks to the wealthy and overfunding the DOD), and the economy gets bad or falls apart, and the Democrats get elected to clean up the mess (which costs money), and just when the fruits of those better policies come to fruition, the voters blame Democrats for the clean up spending, and the Republicans get elected and then take credit for the much improved economy, which they then begin to tank again.
No political party is perfect, but the fraud and waste under the GOP makes your head spin.
Trump/Musk are seeking to gut the EPA and allow massive pollution across the nation, so when rivers, once again, catch on fire, the GOP Voters will be happy???
When your family gets sick with diseases from a polluted environment, or die, will the MAGA voters cheer their victory over common sense??
And, once again, the Democrats will have to mop up the mess. But this time, the mess will likely NOT be fixable, and the GOP/MAGA bone heads will blame the Dems for NOT stopping them in their insane attacks on the planet’s ecosystems.
For a bunch of flag wavers carrying Bibles, the GOP and MAGAs clearly have never read the opening act of their own religious doctrine. The original Hebrew Genesis told the creation story, and, after all was Created, the Abrahamic God gave the very 1st Commandment in Genesis, which was an order for people to be ULTIMATE STEWARDS over the earth, meaning taking care of all life forms, all species, the plants too, the air, water, soils, the lands and oceans.
But the Christians changed the Genesis story and redacted that commandment and slipped in a new and cynical phrase, that God had told people to Dominate and Subdue the earth, which is 180 degrees opposite of the original commandment hat ordered Ultimate Stewardship. When I asked 3 Rabbis about the original Stewardship commandment, they told me that it meant a responsibility of Stewardship so great that humans were to “lay down their lives” to protect all that God had Created.
Meaning that God was an extreme environmentalist, a God that I could respect because it makes perfect sense to Steward the planet that supports you and all other life forms.
But the MAGAs are now complaining in their churches that the Old Jesus is a commie Marxist who is too nice, so he’s gotta go or be redacted and revised, and be morphed into a greedy, stupid, globally destructive Capitalist.
Don’t misread what I am saying here because Soviet Russia and China grossly misinterpreted Marx and laid waste to people and their environments too, and in both countries, tens of millions died of starvation (prior to 1965).
How you treat the Earth and other species will be reflected in how you treat humans too.
MAGA is trashing ecosystems, and they will trash humans too, even themselves.